Coral bleaching not linked to heat, Hanson tells Reef scientist

A defiant Pauline Hanson has told the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority’s top scientist coral bleaching is a natural occurrence, rejecting its link to heat waves.

Another year of mass bleaching threatens Great Barrier Reef

Back-to-back bleaching is killing huge tracts of the Great Barrier Reef, with almost none of the coral effected in 2016 expected to recover.