On Monday, the United Nations launched a monitoring expedition to the Great Barrier Reef to see if the World Heritage property is being safeguarded from climate change as it continues to bleach.
According to recent research, fish on Australia's Great Barrier Reef are losing their color as coral reefs deteriorate and die during bleaching episodes.
According to one of the world's finest coral experts, official monitoring flights have been launched all around the Queensland coastline, who thinks a sixth massive bleaching catastrophe is developing throughout the Great Barrier Reef.
The Australian government lobbied the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world's premier climate scientific body, to modify the wording of a critical study, claiming that the Great Barrier Reef is not presently in danger.