GREAT BARRIER REEF Top Stories

Dethroning King Coal – How a Once Dominant Fuel Source is Falling Rapidly from Favour2020-01-24
Resilience: Electricity fuelled by coal is experiencing a record decline. 2019 is expected to show the biggest fall yet, after decades of increases. An accelerated move away from coal is imperative to achieve the goals of the Paris agreement. Coal currently accounts for...
Australia, our climate change lab, is the best support for nuclear2020-01-24
Cape Cod Times: Can we get serious about our real, and accelerating, climate change? Are...
Interview: Australia still open for business despite bushfires: tourism director2020-01-24
China.dot.org: SYDNEY, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Although the devastation of Australia's unprecedented bushfire crisis has been widespread, the nation's top tourism boss is adamant that Australia is still open for business and ready to welcome tourists from China and across the...
Land shark? Scientists find four new species that walk2020-01-23
The Mercury News: By ScottieAndrew | CNN So — some sharks walk. Just not the scary ones. While great whites haunt the deep, walking sharks are content to scuttle in the shallows. They’ve been walking, or something close to it, for at least 9 million years....
Scientists discovered four new species of sharks that walk2020-01-23
The Citizens: So -- some sharks walk. Just not the scary ones. While great whites haunt the deep, walking sharks are content to scuttle in the shallows. They've been walking, or something close to it, for at least 9 million years. They're evolutionary superstars, too:...
Travel Leaders Group Foundations Make Donations to Australia2020-01-22
Daily Freeman: NEW YORK, Jan. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, , one of North America's largest travel agency companies, announced that its non-profit foundations, , , and the , have come together to contribute funds to the Australian Red Cross to assist with the bushfire...
Great Barrier Reef Retreat and Australian Rainforest Hideaway Compound Estate Hits International Market at AUD $1 Million (USD $690,000) Minimum Bid2020-01-22
PR Newswire: DALLAS, Jan. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- A one of a kind mountaintop compound has hit the coveted Australian tropical coastal market, as well as the international marketplace with minimum bid incentive guidelines and absolute "will be sold" instructions...
Is your sunscreen toxic? How you can best protect yourself and the environment2020-01-22
ITV: The Pacific Ocean island nation of Palau has become the first country in the world to ban sunscreens containing chemicals harmful to animals and the environment. Hawaii has passed laws to invoke a similar ban from January 2021 – with the Caribbean island of...
'Treasure trove' of new discoveries highlights gaps in coral knowledge2020-01-22
PhysOrg: Scientists discovered dozens of new coral species on a recent voyage along the length of the Great Barrier Reef. ......
Merger integrates Movement Strategies with GHD Group2020-01-22
Gulf Daily News: The UK-based people movement and analytics business, Movement Strategies, has joined forces with global consultancy, GHDGroup. The merger will enhance GHD Group’s consulting, technical, data and digital solutions, and add sports and events...
Great Barrier Reef group severs ties with Greyhound over Adani contract2020-01-22
TheNewsHOOK: Great Barrier Reef group severs ties with Greyhound over Adani contract ......
‘Treasure trove’ of new discoveries highlights gaps in coral knowledge2020-01-22
Public Technologies: Scientists have discovered dozens of new coral species on a recent voyage along the length of the Great Barrier Reef. A team of scientists completed a 21-day trip from the Capricorn Bunkers off Gladstone to Thursday Island in the Torres Strait late last year....
Straight From Australia, Sukin’s Cult Favorite Skin and Hair Care Lines Just Arrived at Target.com2020-01-21
Omaha World-Herald: SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sukin, a brand of vegan, cruelty-free, natural, and carbon neutral skin and hair care products “born and bred in Australia,” announced its arrival on Target.com. The #1 clean beauty brand in Australia, Sukin has...
Marine parks need to move along with the animals they’re protecting2020-01-21
Popular Science: A colony of arctic terns in Iceland (Melinda Conners, Stony Brook University/) When we think of areas set aside to protect species, they tend to be fixed land expanses: national parks, wilderness reserves, and refuges. But such rigid definitions of protected...