Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

Professor and Director, Global Change Institute, University of Queensland

Expertise: Climate impacts on coral reef ecosystems

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ARTICLES REVIEWED

Analysis of “Large Sections of Australia’s Great Reef Are Now Dead, Scientists Find”

in The New York Times, by Justin Gillis & Damien Cave

— 18 Mar 2017

While natural temperature fluctuations (due to El Niño, for example) have always occurred, they are now superimposed on a warmer background due to human-induced global warming. Th...

Analysis of “Great Barrier Reef may perish by 2030s…”

in Mashable, by Andrew Freedman

— 02 May 2016

This Mashable article reports on new preliminary research that finds the ongoing coral bleaching event in the Pacific is mainly due to human-caused global warming, and that if glob...