Optimism is rising among scientists that parts of the great barrier reef.
Scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science this month surveyed 14 coral reefs between Cairns and Townsville to see how they fared after being bleached.
They said they were surprised to find the coral had already started to reproduce.
Nearly two thirds of the great barrier reef was affected by bleaching in 2016 and 2017, killing up to 50 per cent of coral in those parts.
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U.S.-born scientists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young won the 2017 nobel prize for physiology or medicine.
The nobel assembly said the scientists’ discoveries explain how “plants, animals and humans adapt their biological rhythm so that it is synchronized with the earth’s revolutions”.
Medicine is the first of the Nobel prizes awarded each year. The prizes for achievements in science, literature and peace are created in accordance with the will of dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel and have been awarded since 1901.
