Mangroves Dying On The Coast Of Australia Likely Associated With Climate Change

Earlier this year, scientists were puzzled by a widespread die-off that seemed to plague over 17,000 acres of mangroves along Australia’s northeastern and northern coastlines. Now, a scientist from James Cook University has confirmed that the die-off is likely a product of unusually dry weather and climate change.

“We have seen smaller instances of this kind of moisture stress before, but what is so unusual now is its extent, and that it occurred across the whole southern gulf in a single month,” Norm Duke, a research professor at the university, said in a press release. “What we are seeing is a natural process, but nature usually does this incrementally. Not with such severity. We have never seen this before.”...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/07/13/3797042/mangroves-die-off-climate-change-australia/