Usually alive with colour and fish, Ningaloo reef and the Rowley Showls now look as though they are ‘painted white’ as temperatures rise

“I’ve seen a fair bit of death and destruction, but Rowley Shoals was always the place that was still standing,” says Dr James Gilmour, a research scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science.

“Just the sheer abundance of life is incredible. It was our hope spot. It’s the reef I love more than any other. So this was super emotional.”

On the back of a massive ocean heatwave

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/fast-running-out-of-time-to-turn-the-tide-australia-at-sea-in-vast-marine-heatwave-20250605-p5m53o.html

Thanks ALP and LNP voters for giving up and enabling the destruction to continue for a brief moment of GHG emissions flatulence