The Great Barrier Reef isn't dead, despite its viral obituary

The bad news: 22 percent of Australia's Great Barrier Reef has died.

The good news is, relatively speaking, that the rest of the 1,400-mile-long coral reef is alive — severely threatened, yes, but not yet dead.

A widely shared "obituary" in Outside magazine last week inaccurately claimed that all of the Great Barrier Reef "passed away in 2016" after a brief battle with global warming and ocean acidification.

The widely shared article stoked sadness and finger-pointing across social media as people mourned the loss of the 25-million-year-old natural wonder.

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