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07/09/2021

Coral Gobies are much more then pretty little fish, have a read!

Goby fish and coral rely on each other to survive. But new research found gobies are declining under climate change, dealing a double blow to Australia’s reefs.

29/08/2021

James Cook University team hope replanting project will be a blueprint for restoring underwater meadows on Great Barrier Reef

19/08/2021

If only all species of coral were so sturdy and resiliant!

The remarkably resilient structure is in good health, for now. But work is needed to ensure it is preserved for future generations.

16/08/2021

https://www.cnet.com/news/stunning-jackfish-spiral-in-the-great-barrier-reef-wins-annual-photo-comp/

The 2021 BMC Ecology and Evolution image competition was full of incredible shots.

11/08/2021

Works the same with land plants and the animals that eat their fruit, but I did not see this one coming.

For decades, scientists speculated that seagrass seeds served only as a backup to vegetative proliferation; they settled into the sand beneath their parent plants, ready to germinate if anything untoward befell the living meadow. But according to findings published recently in Biotropica, the tiny s...

15/07/2021

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/14/australia-to-fly-ambassadors-to-great-barrier-reef-ahead-of-in-danger-list-vote

Representatives from nine voting nations among guests on snorkelling trip as Morrison government lobbies against Unesco recommendation

18/06/2021

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/travel/great-barrier-reef-tour-planting-coral-with-passions-of-paradise/news-story/6b5d2e898682de8603ce5875c1b0ca92

The Great Barrier Reef is protected by dozens of state and federal laws, yet here I am, banging away at it with a hammer. It feels like an act of pure vandalism on the worlds largest coral reef ecosystem. Thunk, thunk, thunk. The sound of nails being bashed into coral rock must be audible to the sno...

16/06/2021

Climate change is causing the “feminisation” of green turtle populations in far north Queensland, but a study shows seawater irrigation could potentially reverse the male drought.

03/06/2021

a bit of good news today!

New research shows table corals can regenerate coral reef habitats on the Great Barrier Reef decades faster than any other coral type. The research suggests overall reef recovery would slow considerably if table corals declined or disappeared on the Great Barrier Reef.

28/05/2021

Hopeful news, but did historical climate changes over the time period in question occur at a rate similar to what's happening now?

One of the most important and widespread reef-building corals, known as cauliflower coral, exhibits strong partnerships with certain species of symbiotic algae, and these relationships have persisted through periods of intense climate fluctuations over the last 1.5 million years, according to a new....

19/05/2021

The world-first system can allow anyone to check if reefs known to be under heat stress have started to bleach

18/05/2021

Doens't semm like much of a gain if you are trading air pollution for water pollution. (Cruise shjp scrubbers, unless outfitted to store wastte scrubber water, cause the same problem.)

A new study finds that as cargo ships try to clean up their air pollution, they are alternatively pushing that pollution into the oceans. Learn more.