SYDNEY: Thousands of hectares of mangroves in Australia’s remote north “died of thirst” last year, scientists said Tuesday, in the largest climate-related incident of its kind ever recorded.
Some 7,400 hectares (18,000 acres), stretching 1,000 kilometres across the semi-arid Gulf of Carpentaria, perished, according to researchers from Australia’s James Cook University.
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