Tag: Great Barrier Reef
This is Australia’s most important report on the environment’s deteriorating health. We present its grim findings
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Climate change is exacerbating pressures on every Australian ecosystem and Australia now has more foreign plant species than native, according to...
Fail: our report card on the government’s handling of Australia’s extinction crisis
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Australia is losing more biodiversity than any other developed nation. Already this year the charismatic and once abundant gang gang cockatoo has been added to...
5 major heatwaves in 30 years have turned the Great Barrier Reef into a bleached checkerboard
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Just 2% of the Great Barrier Reef remains untouched by bleaching since 1998 and 80% of individual reefs have bleached severely once,...
There’s no end to the damage humans can wreak on the climate. This is how bad it’s likely to get
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A major new report published last week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) contained grave warnings on where Earth’s climate...
This is the most sobering report card yet on climate change and Earth’s future. Here’s what you need to know
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Australia is experiencing widespread, rapid climate change not seen for thousands of years and may warm by 4℃ or more...
Not declaring the Great Barrier Reef as ‘in danger’ only postpones the inevitable
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After much anticipation, the World Heritage Committee on Friday decided against listing the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger”.
The decision ignored the recommendation of...