Ecology

Not sure how to feel about this article really. So apparently there was an equally bad event four decades ago (which must've been an extreme event considering how much lower the CO2 levels were!?) and also even after this event;

due to increasing coral cover since 2017, the coral deaths—caused mainly by bleaching last year associated with climate change—have left the area of living coral across the iconic reef system close to its long-term average

... we're still at average levels of corals??