claim: The Great Barrier Reef is experiencing the most widespread bleaching ever recorded
evidences.evidence_id: Coral bleaching:52
evidences.article: Coral bleaching
evidences.evidence: These temperatures have caused the most severe and widespread coral bleaching ever recorded in the Great Barrier reef.
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Great Barrier Reef:14
evidences.article: Great Barrier Reef
evidences.evidence: A March 2016 report stated that coral bleaching was more widespread than previously thought, seriously affecting the northern parts of the reef as a result of warming ocean temperatures.
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Great Barrier Reef:179
evidences.article: Great Barrier Reef
evidences.evidence: The decline in the quality of water over the past 150 years (due to development) has contributed to coral bleaching, algal blooms, and pesticide pollution.
evidences.votes: REFUTES SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Great Barrier Reef:8
evidences.article: Great Barrier Reef
evidences.evidence: Other environmental pressures on the reef and its ecosystem include runoff, climate change accompanied by mass coral bleaching, dumping of dredging sludge and cyclic population outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish.
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Great Barrier Reef:96
evidences.article: Great Barrier Reef
evidences.evidence: Mass coral bleaching events due to elevated ocean temperatures occurred in the summers of 1998, 2002 and 2006, and coral bleaching is expected to become an annual occurrence.
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS