GREAT BARRIER REEF Top Stories
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...
London Evening Standard: The bulk coal carrier that had been stranded on the Great Barrier Reef for more than a week has been refloated, but the damage could take 20 years to repair. The tanker...
Great Barrier Reef 'on ice'2012-01-31
News24: Dubbo - The arid plains fringing Australia's desert centre are more suited to camels than blooms of coral but here, hundreds of kilometres from the coast, a piece of the Great Barrier Reef has been put on ice. Suspended in a liquid nitrogen chamber of -196°C,...
The Examiner: Travel to Australia, especially to the heart of one of the world’s natural wonders, the Great Barrier Reef, is dream-fulfillment travel. The dream’s magic is enhanced when a fresh tropical jewel emerges as a new and undiscovered tropical...
Sydney Morning Herald: Tropical sea cucumbers and their faeces could save coral reefs from the harmful impacts of climate change, scientists have found. Scientists at One Tree Island, the University of Sydney's research station on the Great Barrier Reef, say sea cucumbers reduce the...
The Daily Telegraph Australia: A CAIRNS fisherman has had a catch of a different kind after snapping a rare photo of a whale shark near...
PhysOrg: The camera enables the researchers to see an aspect of light that humans are essentially blind to: polarized light. Though humans aren't sensitive to polarized light, many reef dwelling animals are but this has not always been taken into account in previous...
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Jakarta Globe: Dubbo, Australia. The arid plains fringing Australiaâs desert center are more suited to camels than blooms of coral but here, hundreds of miles from the coast, a piece of the Great Barrier Reef has been put on ice. Suspended in a liquid nitrogen chamber of...
PhysOrg: Suspended in a liquid nitrogen chamber of minus-196 degrees Celsius (-320 Fahrenheit), the 70 billion sperm and 22 billion coral embryos are part of an ambitious Australian-first project to preserve and perhaps one day regenerate the world-famous reef. "We...
The Australian: RIOTinto's $1.4 billion bauxite mine expansion on Cape York has become the latest flash point over the threats caused by increased shipping in the Great Barrier Reef due to the mining boom. The federal government has been forced to reopen consideration of Rio...
The Examiner: Not only does Los Angeles boast a community of visitors and ex-pats from Australia, locals love to vacation down under anytime of the year. With the reversal of seasons, now's the best time for beach lovers, summer's perfect for skiers. And February's...
