Great Barrier Reef survey: “What we saw was an utter tragedy”
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Heartbreaking.
Prof Terry Hughes, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University, was awarded with…
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Photo: Toby HudsonCoral reefs are critically important to the marine ecosystem. Despite this, there's another attempt to make…
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Coral bleaching of Lizard Island. Photo credit: Trond…
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content Anlässlich der vielen Meldungen zum katastrophalen Zustand des Großen Barriereriffs, einer neuen Publikation zur…
With the first quarter of 2017 now past, the year is shaping up to be one of climate extremes: high temperatures, low sea ice…
Corals on the Great Barrier Reef have bleached again in 2017 as a result of extreme summer temperatures. It’s the fourth such…
The Great Barrier Reef is experiencing mass coral bleaching for the second consecutive year, ushering in another global round…
By Terry Hughes, James Cook University and James Kerry, James Cook University Corals on the Great Barrier Reef have bleached…
Scientists are reporting the second mass bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef in the last year. In a Yale Environment 360…
For the second time in just 12 months, scientists have recorded severe coral bleaching across huge tracts of the Great Barrier…
Bleached staghorn coral on the Great Barrier Reef between Townsville and Cairns, March 2017, Credit: Bette Willis, Source…
by Dr Sarah Hamylton I first dived a coral reef in 2001. Back then, the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area was a poster…
Researchers are using 3-D mapping techniques to capture the Great Barrier Reef in incredible detail in order to study the…
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NewsThe bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef reached “unprecedented” levels last year. And this year has brought yet more…
Last year was a tumultuous time for Great Barrier Reef, which suffered through the worst coral bleaching event on record. Now…
According to the cover article in today’s issue of the journal Nature, the iconic reef off the coast of Australia suffered…
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Scientists speculate that the era of never-ending global coral bleaching may have already arrived, decades early.By Eric Holthaus…
Coral reefs across the globe cannot be saved from devastating bleaching events unless rapid action is taken to cut greenhouse…
Rising ocean temperatures are bleaching reefs around the world at unprecedented levels, and, with little standing in its way…
The survival of the Great Barrier Reef hinges on urgent moves to cut global warming because nothing else will protect coral…
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