Canberra Times: Australia’s iconic and beloved Great Barrier Reef will be destroyed by erosion and swamped by invading algal slime within 40 years if current global warming trends continue, new research suggests. The research shows climate change has dramatically slowed growth rates of Porites or brain corals one of the biggest corals forming the reef’s structure sparking fears the reef will ”stop growing altogether” by 2050. Scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science in …