This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at .In early 2020, Australia was in the grip of its second hottest summer on record. As catastrophic bush fires turned the sky black, sea temperatures on the Great Barrier Reef , causing more than a quarter of the corals on the reef to turn a ghostly white. It was the third mass coral bleaching event to hit the UNESCO World Heritage Site in just five years.In light of the ever-increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and rising ocean...…This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at .In early 2020, Australia was in the grip of its second hottest summer on record. As catastrophic bush fires turned the sky black, sea temperatures on the Great Barrier Reef , causing more than a quarter of the corals on the reef to turn a ghostly white. It was the third mass coral bleaching event to hit the UNESCO World Heritage Site in just five years.In light of the ever-increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and rising ocean...WW…