What Is the Greatest Threat to Australia's Great Barrier Reef?

The article focuses on a research paper by P.R.F. Bell and colleagues published in the "AMBIO," a journal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which revealed the loss of coral in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) by 70 percent in Australia. It mentions that the loss of hermatypic coral lead to storm damage, coral bleaching and the growth of corallivores. It also mentions the coral skeletal diseases (CSDs) including Black Band Disease, Brown Band syndrome, White Syndrome in the GBR.