GREAT BARRIER REEF Top Stories

Surging waves threaten Aussie coastline, warns researchers2021-06-15
China.dot.org: SYDNEY, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Ocean waves in the Southern Hemisphere are becoming more powerful, adding to Australia's coastal erosion, according to an international oceanographic team. Dr. Tom Mortlock, an environmental scientist with Australia's Macquarie...
Hawksbill Turtles Raised by Researchers Experience Ocean for First Time2021-06-14
The Daily Telegraph Australia: A group of 11 critically endangered hawksbill turtles swam in Australia’sGreat Barrier Reef for the first time in early May, after they were released into the...
Fishing sector's 'massive shock' to hear Spanish mackerel is overfished2021-06-14
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A Queensland government paper says Spanish mackerel are being overfished and the fishery is unsustainable, just three years after it was deemed sustainable. ......
Want selfies with Phelps, Bolt and Co? Olympic superfan offers some tips2021-06-13
Straits Times: SINGAPORE - Strutting along the Esplanade Bridge, Brent Folan was hard to miss. Not while he was in his stars-and-stripes onesie that helped him go viral at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. In the get-up, the 30-year-old American became an overnight...
Wear the right sunscreen2021-06-13
Herald-Standard: Let me preface this with my typical disclaimer. I am not a doctor or a scientist. I’m just a guy who reads a lot, observes a lot, and tries to figure things out. I’ll admit I was initially wrong about hydrogenated fats and margarine. I was wrong about sugar...
'There’s a lot less traffic on the extra mile.' Dispatch Scholar athlete Derek Amicon, Grandview2021-06-13
The Columbus Dispatch: Honorable mention male Scholar-Athlete Derek Amicon Grandview Grade-point average: 4.27 $1,000 / Encova InsuranceSports played: Cross country (4 years), track (4), basketball (1) Academic highlights: National Honor Society member; all-Ohio scholar-athlete;...
Powerful owl deaths fuel concerns mouse poison is spreading through food chain2021-06-13
The Observer: In a chest freezer in BethMott’s office in Wollongong are the bodies of 40 powerful owls – cause of death as yet undetermined. Over the past 18 months, the dead specimens have been coming in from across Sydney and as far north as Newcastle, west to the Blue...
The Chinese tit-for-tat2021-06-12
The Manila Times: Gone evidently are the days of sleeping by the Chinese dragon. Back in the 1920s all the way to the 1930s when the great Chinese territory was apportioned among Western imperialists, it was not uncommon for restaurants in Shanghai to carry a sign at the...
Coral carpentry on the Great Barrier Reef2021-06-12
Sydney Morning Herald: Scientists are trying to piece together the Great Barrier Reef one steel frame at a time. ......
Today in history2021-06-12
The Logan Daily News: Today is Saturday, June 12, the 163rd day of 2021. There are 202 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, exhorted Soviet leaderMikhail S. Gorbachev to...