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Update news Great Barrier Reef
The third such event in five years prompts scientists to renew urgent warnings about climate change.
Mass bleaching has destroyed as much as 35 percent of the coral on the northern and central Great Barrier Reef,
Australia's Department of the Environment said on Friday it had omitted its contribution to a U.N. report examining the impact of climate change on world heritage sites over concern it could create "confusion" and have a negative impact on tourism.
Parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef face permanent destruction if the current El Nino, one of the strongest in two decades, does not ease this month, scientists said on Wednesday.
Australia's Academy of Science says an Australian government draft plan to protect the Great Barrier Reef will not prevent its decline.