Scientists from the University of Technology Sydney are searching for “super corals,” species that are naturally more ...

To do this, they undertook the first high resolution regional ocean modelling of the Great Barrier Reef in a climate scenario known as Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5.

The discovery was made by scientists from multiple institutions who used high-resolution drone imagery to monitor the reef near the Lizard Island. “At least 97 per cent of the corals had died ...