Tag: Great Barrier Reef
Australian government was ‘blindsided’ by UN recommendation to list Great Barrier Reef as in-danger. But it’s no great surprise
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The Australian government on Tuesday expressed shock at a draft decision to list the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger”. But the recommendation has been...
Seriously ugly: here’s how Australia will look if the world heats by 3°C this century
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This is a long read, it is an important read, so set aside time to take it all in.
Imagine, for a moment, a...
‘Existential threat to our survival’: see the 19 Australian ecosystems already collapsing
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In 1992, 1,700 scientists warned that human beings and the natural world were “on a collision course”. Seventeen years later, scientists described planetary boundaries within which humans...
‘This situation brings me to despair’: two reef scientists share their climate grief
A researcher completing bleaching surveys in the southern
Great Barrier Reef after a major bleaching event.
ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR CORAL REEF STUDIES
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The Great Barrier Reef is in trouble. There are a whopping 45 reasons why
A helicopter view of Bait Reef in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
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When the managers of the Great Barrier Reef recently...
TROPICAL ISLAND TRAVEL … THE LAST RESORT
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Queensland’s famous island resorts, once like a string of pearls along a tropical coast, are now mostly dots of decay.
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-23/south-molle-island-remains-in-tatters-with-no-signs-reopening/9670338
They...