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.
