{"634141":{"#nid":"634141","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Great Barrier Reef suffers its most widespread mass bleaching event on record","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEarlier this year, scientists \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/y3mxmg\/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-2020\u0022\u003Ewarned\u003C\/a\u003E that the Great Barrier Reef could be on the brink of its most widespread bleaching event ever recorded. That fear has been realized. \u0026ldquo;I have to admit, I\u0026rsquo;m devastated to learn that the southern reefs are taking such a hit right now, as they were a rare bright spot during the 2016 mass bleaching event,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/cobb-dr-kim\u0022\u003EKim Cobb\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRead More:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theweek.com\/speedreads\/907141\/scientists-report-unprecedented-bleaching-event-great-barrier-reef\u0022\u003EThe Week\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/environment\/2020\/04\/10\/Great-Barrier-Reef-bleaching-widespread-record-event\/stories\/202004100086\u0022\u003EPittsburg Post-Gazette\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35185","created_gmt":"2020-04-07 16:07:14","changed_gmt":"2020-04-13 17:38:19","author":"kpietkiewicz3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"graduation 2023","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2020\/04\/06\/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching\/","dateline":{"date":"2020-04-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-04-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"100731","name":"corals"},{"id":"14760","name":"coral reef"},{"id":"9269","name":"bleaching"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}