GREAT BARRIER REEF Top Stories
Newstrack India: Washington, March 28 (ANI): Researchers have examined corals from the Great Barrier Reef affected by the Black Band Disease and identified the critical parameters that...
The Daily Telegraph Australia: THE Great Barrier Reef is on the brink of another outbreak of the coral-devouring crown of thorns starfish and Cairns tourism operators are calling on the Federal...
CBC: Australia'sGreat Barrier Reef Marine ParkAuthority said flooding is a 'natural occurrence and corals have recovered from such incidents before,' but some researchers...
The Independent: Australian police arrested the captain and senior officer of a Chinese ship yesterday and charged them with damaging the Great Barrier Reef, more than a week after their...
Why is Great Barrier Reef 'not so great'2012-04-13
PhysOrg: Jon Brodie, SeniorPrincipal Research Officer with JCU’s Centre for TropicalWater and Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWater) and Research FellowJane Waterhouse said that recent estimates put average coral cover across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) at...
The Guardian: WWF says Australian government's lifting of three-month moratorium on diuron could spell disaster for 1,600-mile reef The Great Barrier Reef is being contaminated by the pesticide diuron, says the WWF. Photograph: Doug Steley B / Alamy/Alamy...
PhysOrg: The scientists investigated the tissue lesions with microsensors for oxygen, sulfide and pH. These microprobes have a tip diameter in the micrometre range and allow the scientists to measure highly resolved depth profiles in the coral tissue. They identified...
Snorkling the Great Barrier Reef2012-03-23
The Examiner: ParadiseReef is on the Outer Barrier Reef offshore from Cairns Australia. It takes about two hours to get there on the maxi cat operated by Passions of Paradise tours. www.passions.com.au I highly recommend this reef tour company. Their boat, the snorkel gear...
Mining Weekly: PERTH (miningweekly.com) – FederalEnvironment MinisterTony Burke on Friday tightened the environmental supervision of diversified miner Rio Tinto’s proposed A$1.4-billion Weipa bauxite mine expansion, in Cape York. Burke said that after...
Great Barrier Reef 'at a Crossroads'2012-03-12
Wall Street Journal: By REBECCA THURLOW SYDNEY—Australia'sGreat Barrier Reef draws millions of tourists to its colorful coral and tropical fish. Recently it has been attracting another kind of visitor—big resources companies looking to export coal and gas....
Mining Weekly: PERTH (miningweekly.com) – The Queensland Resources Council (QRC) on Thursday said that it would emphasise the importance of the Great Barrier Reef’s world heritage status to a Unesco monitoring mission. The Unesco team is in Australia owing to...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The environmental arm of UNESCO is in central Queensland this week to assess the health of the Great Barrier Reef. There's been allegations of industry poisoning water in Gladstone and dead fish have been found. United Nations environmental investigators are...
Gadling: Yesterday we told you about a new travel survey from LivingSocial that revealed that Americans consider themselves the worst travelers in the world. That same survey also asked respondents to rank their top international travel destinations with Australia's...
Great Barrier Reef, Sunday, March 112012-03-07
Canberra Times: Great Barrier Reef. Nine, 6.30pm The footage in this documentary is so remarkable that the viewer's mind wanders from the tentacled coral polyps and wriggling starfish to the cameras that caught...
