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Experts at the University of Queensland are experimenting with a new way of saving Australia's Great Barrier Reef - one of the most endangered natural environments on the planet - and their strategy might surprise you...

… After half a billion million years of climate change, I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that life on Earth (and specifically corals) have so many ways to cope with the climate changing. After all, it’s...

The Great Barrier Reef provides $6.4 billion AUD to Australia's economy every year — and the government just announced plans to protect that asset with what they say is the largest ever single investment in the reef. They'll...

The Great Barrier Reef provides $6.4 billion AUD to the economies of Australia and the Australian state Queensland a year — and now the Australian government aims to protect that asset with what they say is the largest...

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… A new paper finds that there is already enough genetic variety spread across the Great Barrier Reef to adapt to the imagined “unprecedented” warming coming in the next two centuries...

‘Labor does not rip up contracts, and we don’t create sovereign risk,’ leader says, in cooling of recent comments

Erik Solheim cites ‘huge decline’ in world’s reefs but says shift from coal and new awareness of plastic pollution are good news

 ”Air-conditioning” of The Great Barrier Reef begins soon To calm a few panicking people, the Australian Government will pay for large fans to circulate water on a minuscule portion of the 2,300 kilometer long...

… After lasting for thousands of years through wild swings of temperature, scientists could never have guessed that the Great Barrier Reef has evolved to cope with climate change...

Queensland premier refuses to be drawn on reports a Labor candidate said Carmichael coalmine would not proceed

Guest post by David Middleton   EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Climate change is internationally-recognised as one of the biggest threats to coral reefs around the world, including the Great Barrier Reef...

Coral which has produced eggs near Fitzroy Island. Photo AIMS, Neal Cantin. The ABC reports today that the Great Barrier Reef is recovering “surprisingly” fast. Optimism is rising among scientists that parts of...

Labor vowed to ban ‘trans-shipping’ in reef waters after UN’s scientific body raised concerns about proposal in 2014

Guest essay by Jim Steele Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism Recently Dr...