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Environment
Tracey Ferrier

Scientists despair as even deep corals cook

Coral has turned ghostly white on sections of the Great Barrier Reef as its suffers more bleaching. (HANDOUT/DIVERS FOR CLIMATE)

At Heron Island, 70km off the Queensland coast, corals that sit in 20 metres of water are slowly cooking.

It's as hot down there as it is on the surface and there's nothing normal about that.

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