{"id":145235,"date":"2022-08-31T03:55:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T08:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/coral-levels-in-some-parts-of-the-great-barrier-reef-are-at-the-highest-in-36-years"},"modified":"2022-08-31T03:55:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T08:55:51","slug":"coral-levels-in-some-parts-of-the-great-barrier-reef-are-at-the-highest-in-36-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/coral-levels-in-some-parts-of-the-great-barrier-reef-are-at-the-highest-in-36-years","title":{"rendered":"Coral levels in some parts of the Great Barrier Reef are at the highest in 36 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/coral-levels-in-some-parts-of-the-great-barrier-reef-are-at-the-highest-in-36-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The area surveyed represents two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef.<\/p>\n<p>Almost half of the reefs studied had between 10% and 30% hard coral cover, while about a third of the reefs had hard coral cover levels between 30% and 50%, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>While higher water temperatures led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/03\/26\/1088886918\/australia-great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-climate\">a coral bleaching event<\/a> in some areas in March, the temperatures did not climb high enough to kill the coral, the agency said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The area surveyed represents two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef. Almost half of the reefs studied had between 10% and 30% hard coral cover, while about a third of the reefs had hard coral cover levels between 30% and 50%, the report said. While higher water temperatures led to a coral bleaching event in some [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}