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Environment
Poppy Johnston

'Like a warm bath': coral reefs rocked by heatwave

"Unprecedented" coral bleaching is threatening reefs off the Kimberley coast. (HANDOUT/Wendy Mitchell, Environs Kimberley)

Coral reefs off Australia's wildest stretch of coastline may be spared agricultural runoff and other pressures from nearby human activity but there is no escape from global warming-intensified marine heatwaves.

The Kimberley coast, one of the most intact tropical marine environments on earth, is now under threat from "unprecedented" coral bleaching.

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