Obituary for the Great Barrier Reef

Rowan Jacobsen has written a fairly comprehensive obit in OutsideOnline. The reef, a World Heritage Site, was the world’s largest living structure, and the only one visible from space. It was very diverse in the species it housed - fish, mollusk, coral, birds, whales, dolphins, turtles. It was called “the most impressive marine area in the world”.

It was killed by the warming of the water via climate changes and acidification of the reef due to the oceans absorbing more carbon from the atmosphere.