Melbourne Great Barrier Reef Sydney 276 Studied abroad in Australia, visiting Melbourne, Sydney, New Zealand and the Great Barrier Reef.
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Melbourne Sydney Great Barrier Reef New Zealand 22015 Studied abroad in Australia, visiting Melbourne, Sydney, New Zealand and the Great Barrier Reef.
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This Is Why the Great Barrier Reef Is DyingThe Great Barrier Reef is one of the most celebrated ecosystems on Earth—and it's dying.
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The Great Barrier Reef had two back-to-back bleaching events that killed just about half of the corals along the length of the barrier reef.
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READ: Dramatic images reveal coral bleaching in Great Barrier Reef The Great Barrier Reef has experienced "two major bleaching events in recent decades," in 1998 and 2002.
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HELPING THE GREAT BARRIER REEF TO SAVE ITSELF In March, scientists announced that large parts of the Great Barrier Reef had been killed by rising seawater temperatures.
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New helicopter surveys show Great Barrier Reef bleaching is getting worse fast New helicopter surveys show Great Barrier Reef bleaching is getting worse fast For the second year in a row, severe coral-bleaching has been reported across Australia's Great Barrier Reef, according to helicopter surveys covering 22016,22017 kilometers, published Monday.
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Great Barrier Reef Australia's Great Barrier Reef likely experienced its most widespread bleaching event on record, which could be a devastating blow to the already at-risk marine site.
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Repeated damage to the Great Barrier Reef may also see UNESCO's World Heritage Committee reconsider its decision in 2015 not to put the Great Barrier Reef on its "in danger" list.
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"I'm really scared for the Great Barrier Reef," she said.
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" The correct response was "What is the Great Barrier Reef?
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Narrator: This is the Great Barrier Reef, and it's dying.
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And none is more vital than the Great Barrier Reef.
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We made plans to go to the Great Barrier Reef.
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Last year was particularly disastrous for the Great Barrier Reef.
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Male sea turtles are disappearing from Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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Australian coral reef experts made that conclusion after flying over the Great Barrier Reef for six hours yesterday, according to a press release issued by the Australian government's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Agency (GBRMPA).
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Literally: his ship, Endeavour, ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
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Along that path lies the extinction of the Great Barrier Reef.
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A view of the Great Barrier Reef from a helicopter ride.
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Average coral loss along each section of the Great Barrier Reef.
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Dead and dying staghorn coral in the central Great Barrier Reef.
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Still, it wasn't all tragedy out on the Great Barrier Reef.
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The Great Barrier Reef, Tasmania, New Zealand, or the Timor Sea?
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Scientists thought the Great Barrier Reef was too big to fail.
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Of these, the Great Barrier Reef is among the most spectacular.
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Half of Australia's Great Barrier Reef has died off since 2016.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef is one of the world's natural wonders.
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The amount of reef area that's off-limits for fishing fleets in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which covers nearly all of the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef, was increased to about half in 2004.
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It was a drop of good news about the world's oceans: The Belize Barrier Reef, the largest barrier reef system in the Northern Hemisphere, has been removed from the United Nations list of endangered world heritage sites.
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I first descended onto the Great Barrier Reef in the early 1980s.
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Climate change has been disastrous for coral on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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Despite the bleak news, the Great Barrier Reef is not completely dead.
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The Great Barrier Reef is known for its colorful medley of coral.
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The bad news: 22016 percent of Australia's Great Barrier Reef has died.
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The Great Barrier Reef as we once knew it is gone forever.
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The largest bleaching, at Australia's Great Barrier Reef, was confirmed last month.
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"This will change the Great Barrier Reef forever," Hughes told Australia's ABC.
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BYRON BAY, Australia — The Great Barrier Reef is literally being eaten alive.
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The jewel in our tourism crown, the Great Barrier Reef, is dying.
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A kaleidoscope of color, the Great Barrier Reef is a natural wonder.
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As already noted, the Great Barrier Reef is a magnet for tourists.
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"The bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef is devastating," he tells me.
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"We can confirm that the Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its third mass bleaching event in five years," David Wachenfeld, chief scientist of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, said in a video posted on its website.
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Narrator: It's also important to note that the Great Barrier Reef is one of the best-managed reefs in the world, but even with the best countermeasures, the Great Barrier Reef simply can't withstand the effects of climate change.
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Coral bleaching has taken a particularly devastating toll on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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The die-off of the Great Barrier Reef isn't just about losing coral.
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The Belize Barrier Reef, half a mile from shore, draws fishermen and divers.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef is one of the world's greatest reservoirs of biodiversity.
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Aerial view of wide spread coral bleaching, northern Great Barrier Reef, March 2016.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef is known worldwide for its colorful medley of coral.
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People are worried about food security, the Great Barrier Reef and more bushfires.
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Bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef, photographed during a survey in March 2016.
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Still, Abbot Point is too close to the Great Barrier Reef for comfort.
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And it's not just the Great Barrier Reef that's threatened by climate change.
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The closest coral of the Great Barrier Reef is just 12 miles away.
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The news out of the Great Barrier Reef keeps getting worse and worse.
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Ocean temperatures surged in 2016 around the Great Barrier Reef, causing severe damage.
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A warming ocean has already killed large chunks of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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The past few decades haven't been kind to Australia's majestic Great Barrier Reef.
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"This report sends a clear message that the Great Barrier Reef—as an ecosystem, as an economic driver, as a global treasure—is too big to fail," said Steve Sargent, director of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, which commissioned the report.
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Why it matters: Supporters of the measure are calling it an important step to protect the Florida Keys, the largest and only living coral barrier reef in the continental U.S., and the third-largest barrier reef system in the world.
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"The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority takes pollution of the Marine Park seriously and works with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority to ensure the best outcome for the Great Barrier Reef," said a park authority spokesperson in a statement.
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Little of Australia's Great Barrier Reef has now been left unscathed by coral bleaching.
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Recovery efforts There's no denying that the Great Barrier Reef is in serious trouble.
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A portion of the Great Barrier Reef, photographed during a survey in March 2016.
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A bleached portion of the Great Barrier Reef, photographed during a March 2016 survey.
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A healthy reef in southern Great Barrier Reef escapes damage from bleaching, Oct. 2016.
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The Great Blue Hole is part of the larger Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System.
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Experts worry the Great Barrier Reef is now uncomfortably close to that tipping point.
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It specifically pointed out the risk to coral reefs, including the Great Barrier Reef.
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There are also several other islands are within a mile away, and the entire region forms part of the Belize Barrier Reef, the largest barrier reef system in the Northern Hemisphere, Cooper says the island is currently owned by an undisclosed Belizean company.
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Scientists observed this last year in the worst ever bleaching of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest living structure, is dying amid rising sea temperatures.
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It is the home of the largest living structure on Earth — the Great Barrier Reef.
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For example, extreme heat waves have repeatedly hit the Great Barrier Reef, northeast of Australia.
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Since the last federal vote, warming waters have killed much of the Great Barrier Reef.
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Environmentalists oppose the mine, arguing that coal threatens the climate and the Great Barrier Reef.
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This week, marine biologists dropped some horribly depressing news: the Great Barrier Reef is dying.
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Unfortunately, for much of the Great Barrier Reef, this protective mechanism may not last long.
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The unprecedented coral die off at the Great Barrier Reef is not an isolated incident.
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But when you search Google for "Great Barrier Reef," that's not all that you'll find.
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Scientists on Wednesday released new footage of the widespread devastation across Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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For example, the Great Barrier Reef is dying off some thirty years ahead of predictions.
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Collecting or touching coral on the Great Barrier Reef is not allowed without a permit.
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The Great Barrier Reef, which actually consists of became a World Heritage Site in 1981.
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"Climate change is killing the Great Barrier Reef," said environmentalist Charlie Wood, director of 350.
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But if water temperatures continue to rise, then the Great Barrier Reef might indeed die.
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The first mass-bleaching event that occurred on the Great Barrier Reef was in 13.
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A cruise ship spilled waste in the Great Barrier Reef, further damaging the fragile coral.
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Australia's northeastern coast is near the world's biggest and longest reef, the Great Barrier Reef.
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The Carmichael mine would launch an attack on the Great Barrier Reef from all fronts.
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But scientists studying the Great Barrier Reef off Australia are finding a reason for optimism.
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"This is a potential mechanism for restocking the Great Barrier Reef," Bryan told the BBC.
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The Great Barrier Reef has an economic, social and icon asset value of $56 billion.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef is the largest and most extensive reef system in the world.
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Those include environmental damage to the Great Barrier Reef and the impact of artificial intelligence.
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Solitude, barrier reef, star To whatever merits most Concerns born of our blank white chart.
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"Escape the more popular Great Barrier Reef for some underwater magic on Ningaloo," Gough suggested.
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Trilobites Joleah Lamb began her career as a coral biologist on the Great Barrier Reef.
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In 2008, researchers recorded the rabbitfish playing this crucial role in the Great Barrier Reef.
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"Coral cover [on the Great Barrier Reef] has halved over the last 27 years," Connolly said.
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The absolute best part of the trip was the Great Barrier Reef day tour in Cairns.
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Keswick Island, located in the Whitsundays region of the Great Barrier Reef, is up for sale.
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The Great Barrier Reef had seen coral bleaching before, but this was the worst on record.
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Want to visit a pristine Australian beach, or discover the delights of the Great Barrier Reef?
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The fourth episode on shallow seas lingers on dying, bleached corals in Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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Similar principles could save the Great Barrier Reef as well, but action must be taken soon.
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"During those events, 40-50% of the entire [Great Barrier Reef] system suffered bleaching," he explained.
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The final piece takes the reader to the Great Barrier Reef and a scuba-diving holiday.
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There's still work to be done, and the Great Barrier Reef is already facing near extermination.
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From the Great Barrier Reef to the Caribbean, coral reefs are being devastated by climate change.
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Wachenfeld: We have to remember that the Great Barrier Reef is now essentially a changed ecosystem.
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The reefs around Heron Island are one of six Great Barrier Reef sites to be surveyed.
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Environment groups say the mine would contribute to global warming and damage the Great Barrier Reef.
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"The Barrier Reef isn't dead, but it's certainly impacted by these increasing bleaching events," he said.
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The Great Barrier Reef suffered its worst bleaching event in memory, killing large swaths of coral.
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Finding out for certain began in February 2016, along an island in the Great Barrier Reef.
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The Australian government this week announced its largest-ever single investment in Great Barrier Reef protection.
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A survey of the Great Barrier Reef found that around half of the reef's corals died.
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Editorial Reports that the Great Barrier Reef is dying come ever more frequently, ever more urgently.
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More than 63,000 people remain without power and damage to the Great Barrier Reef awaits calculation.
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The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest reef system, composed of some 2,900 individual reefs.
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Currently, about half of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is off limits to fishing fleets.
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But with no such warnings and nary any conflict, Belize is a honeymoon home run, with terrain including jungle, beach, and some of the world's best scuba thanks to the largest barrier reef in the western hemisphere, and the second-largest barrier reef in the world.
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I've dreamed of the Great Barrier Reef ever since playing Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?
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The northern section of the Great Barrier Reef has been particularly hard hit by the bleaching event.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef already offers plenty of wonder, but dang, this blue hole is pretty cool.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef is under serious threat as warming waters kill off large swaths of corals.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef, worth $4.6bn each year to nearby Queensland alone, has been particularly badly affected.
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Beyond its beauty, the Great Barrier Reef also has a huge economic benefit on the Australian economy.
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If we don't bring carbon emissions down fast, the Great Barrier Reef will not survive the century.
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The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has been contacted by Mashable for comment regarding the permits.
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The Great Barrier Reef is arguably one of the most well-known underwater ecosystems in the world.
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One of the mines would be Australia's largest and, environmentalists say, will damage the Great Barrier Reef.
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This week, Outside Magazine published an obituary of the Great Barrier Reef and it quickly went viral.
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"The Great Barrier Reef of Australia passed away in 210 after a long illness," the obituary began.
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The Great Barrier Reef is at a critical tipping point that will determine its long-term survival.
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Tourism generated by the Great Barrier Reef is worth about $2003 billion annually to nearby Queensland alone.
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Gary Braasch, world-renowned photojournalist, died on Monday while snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
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The Great Barrier Reef, true to its name, is the most expansive reef ecosystem in the world.
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Though the Great Barrier Reef was severely damaged in 2016, the corals that survived became more resistant.
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The rat -- the Bramble Cay melomys -- lived on a small coral island on the Great Barrier Reef.
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Previous dire warnings about climate change risks to the Great Barrier Reef had not worked, Abram said.
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That a new coal plant was being planned in Queensland not so far from the Barrier Reef?
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Swimming on the Barrier Reef, Angkor Wat – especially the more remote temples that haven't been fully excavated.
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Covering more than 1,600 miles (2,575 km), the Great Barrier Reef shelters over 1,1003 different fish species.
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Heat waves between 2016 and 2017 killed half the corals at the Great Barrier Reef, for instance.
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The Great Barrier Reef, transposed to North America's west coast, would stretch from Baja California to British Columbia.
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Athlete Adam Peaty swims through the Great Barrier Reef as part of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.
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Our home is on a quarter-acre block and has views of the ocean and Great Barrier Reef.
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Airbnb is partnering with Disney's Pixar to offer a night in a room on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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Dead coral around Lizard Island after the coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef in May 2016.
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In the last few months alone, some 22 percent of the Great Barrier Reef has been declared dead.
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The app lets students take immersive trips to places like the Great Barrier Reef or the London Eye.
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The largest die-off of corals was recently observed on Australia's Green Barrier Reef due to warmer water.
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"The diversity [in the Great Barrier Reef] basically gives you a spectrum of tolerance and sensitivity," he said.
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During the final days of their journey, the team tackled the Great Barrier Reef and faced dwindling supplies.
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Most of the impact was along 500 miles of the northern Great Barrier Reef, its most pristine region.
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Most of the impact was along 2000 miles of the northern Great Barrier Reef, its most pristine region.
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And coral bleaching is devastating the Great Barrier Reef, one of the seven natural wonders of the world.
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The Bramble Cay, a rodent that lived on a tiny outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef, is extinct.
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"The Great Barrier Reef is very resilient and quite strong," Mr. Frydenberg said in an email on Tuesday.
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For the Great Barrier Reef to fully recover from bleaching that has occurred would take decades, Eakin says.
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News Analysis SYDNEY, Australia — Mile after mile of the Great Barrier Reef is dying amid rising ocean temperatures.
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Neal Cantin collected coral samples from Rib Reef, a section of the Great Barrier Reef off Queensland, Australia.
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They collected specimens near One Tree Island in the Great Barrier Reef, off the northeast coast of Australia.
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Rising ocean temperatures contributed to a widespread die-off in the Great Barrier Reef in 2015 and 2016.
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"We used to think the Great Barrier Reef was too big to fail -- until now," one scientist said.
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From the Great Barrier Reef to Perth, you could spend years traveling around Australia and not see everything.
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Townsville, Australia, is a beautiful city of 2500,22014 people, on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia's tropical northeast.
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The scientists who study the Great Barrier Reef are shocked and horrified by what they're seeing right now.
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"Great Barrier Reef Foundation director Steve Sargent said the report "sends a clear message that the Great Barrier Reef—as an ecosystem, as an economic driver, as a global treasure—is too big to fail," adding that at $56 billion, "the reef is valued at more than 12 Sydney Opera Houses.
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" The Great Barrier Reef in particular, "in sheer amount of reef area, is truly the greatest on the planet.
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The effects are evident around the world, not least in this year's devastating bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef.
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Help for the Great Barrier Reef, more goodwill from Korea and the biggest global film opening of all time.
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Scientists have discovered a large doughnut-shaped coral reef in northern Queensland, sitting behind the iconic Great Barrier Reef.
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The report, commissioned by Great Barrier Reef Foundation, is the first to calculate the economic value of the GBR.
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The U.N. recognizes the Great Barrier Reef as a World Heritage Site for its staggering amount of marine biodiversity.
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"Science is well aware of what is killing coral on the Great Barrier Reef," Bill McKibben, environmentalist and 350.
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This is what has happened to about a third of the Great Barrier Reef over the past two years.
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From there, the coal will be shipped through the Great Barrier Reef, just offshore, to power stations in India.
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The northern third of Australia's Great Barrier Reef has lost more than a third of its coral since 2015.
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The Great Barrier Reef is an expansive wonder filled with thousands of marine species and over 22016 coral types.
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When I was a kid, the Great Barrier Reef was the first reef on the radar of my imagination.
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According to Cantin, the Great Barrier Reef is potentially slightly less vulnerable to bleaching than reefs in other regions.
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In March, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority announced the reef is experiencing yet another mass bleaching event.
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In 2009, Republican Congressman Bob Inglis went snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef and returned home a changed man.
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About half of the coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef has been lost over the last 30 years.
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To start, the researchers examined 27 years of satellite-based sea surface temperature records for the Great Barrier Reef.
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As of last year, more than half of Australia's Great Barrier Reef had died as a result of bleaching.
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The dying of the Great Barrier Reef; the crippling, ongoing drought in East Africa; the thawing of Arctic ice.
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I Do Great Barrier Reef Imperiled as Heat Worsens Die-Offs, Experts Say Can 'Illuminati Tinder' Save Us All?
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Its habitat, a grassy island in the Great Barrier Reef, was wrecked by rising sea levels and conservation neglect.
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The Great Barrier Reef is getting all the attention right now because it's big and famous and hugely important.
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The Great Barrier Reef has experienced this sort of mass bleaching before, first in 1998 and again in 2002.
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The Belize Barrier Reef system, which extends roughly 200 miles, was designated a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1996.
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That means plenty of corals will be brought to the Great Barrier Reef, which has definitely seen better days.
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By 2018, more than half of Australia&aposs Great Barrier Reef had already died as a result of bleaching.
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Climate change is killing wide sections of the Great Barrier Reef, and rising seas are threatening important historical locations.
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Between 2016 and 2017, half the corals at the Great Barrier Reef were killed by two ocean heat waves.
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The world's largest reef, or really reef system, is the Great Barrier Reef, along the east coast of Australia.
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Between 2016 and 2017 half of all corals in the Great Barrier Reef died due to bleaching-induced starvation.
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The approval was "bad news" for the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef, the Australian Marine Conservation Society said.
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But the Great Barrier Reef, despite its status, is not the only unique or threatened marine ecosystem in Australia.
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The Great Barrier Reef stretches for 22016,21997 miles along Australia's northeastern coast, one of the world's great natural wonders.
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The Great Barrier Reef is really an interlinked collection of smaller reefs, with over 600 species of coral living there.
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THE Great Barrier Reef stretches some 2,300 km down Australia's north-east coast, covering an area the size of Italy.
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Events like this one in the Great Barrier Reef are effects of climate change that scientists have predicted and feared.
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In "Mirror Mirror," a green turtle and a human say hello on a snorkeling trip in the Great Barrier Reef.
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They worry about the Great Barrier Reef, a national treasure which provides employment for more than 60,000 people through tourism.
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If scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef is on your bucket list, you might want to book tickets soon.
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THE Great Barrier Reef, which runs for 2,300km along the coast of Queensland, is one of the icons of environmentalism.
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The Great Barrier Reef stretches 2,000 km (1,200 miles) along Australia's northeast coast and is the world's largest living ecosystem.
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Prior to the latest two episodes, severe bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef were observed in 1998 and 2002.
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Coral reef experts and climate scientists agree that due to rising temperatures, Australia's Great Barrier Reef is pretty much fucked.
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Rows of pleasure boats bob in the harbour, which provides easy access to nearby stretches of the Great Barrier Reef.
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The Great Barrier Reef bleaching event was made more extreme by stress from ocean warming, which was caused by humans.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef has also been affected, with more than two thirds of it experiencing "shocking" amounts of bleaching.
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Global warming has contributed to massive coral bleaching worldwide, with particular damage occurring in parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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Over the course of 22 days in September and October 2014, scientists doused Australia's Great Barrier Reef with an antacid.
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The Great Barrier Reef, while it is the most well known, is not the only reef at risk in Australia.
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"We didn't expect to see this level of destruction to the Great Barrier Reef for another 30 years," he said.
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Landmarks that are in danger include the Great Barrier Reef, Statue of Liberty, and the entire city of Venice, Italy.
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A new study found "alarming" levels of certain harmful chemicals inside turtles around the Great Barrier Reef, the Guardian reports.
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And I'm not talking about building a ginormous plant on a barrier reef which is what they did at Fukushima.
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Belize, home to the second largest barrier reef in the world, recently banned offshore oil and gas from its waters.
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The Great Barrier Reef consists of more than 2,500 individual reefs, all of which are threatened by rising ocean temperatures.
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Healthy corals only grow 1 to 5 centimeters per year, so the Great Barrier Reef is millions of years old.
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The Great Barrier Reef stretches 2,300 km (1,430 miles) along Australia's northeast coast and is the world's largest living ecosystem.
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The Great Barrier Reef experienced an extended marine heat wave in 0003 that caused massive coral bleaching and die-off.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef is a household name worldwide, known as a hotspot for thousands of coral and marine species.
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The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world, but the implications extend far beyond Australia.
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Scientists reported that large parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef have been bleached for the third time in five years.
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They also were kind enough to include a story I worked on about "assisted evolution" and the Great Barrier Reef.
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But over all, Australians shrugged off the warming seas killing the Great Barrier Reef and the extreme drought punishing farmers.
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Already, Eakin said, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and others are confirming bleaching up and down the reef.
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Today, the ocean is needing life support, and the Great Barrier Reef is going to witness another bleaching event soon.
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Rising temperatures seem to be on the verge of wiping out large sections of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
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Peter Mumby is chief scientist at the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, a charity whose aim is to protect the reef.
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Today, swaths of the once-psychedelic Great Barrier Reef in Australia have turned boneyard white and largely devoid of life.
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Among the concerns was further damage to the Great Barrier Reef, which has already been seriously degraded by warming waters.
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And while the Great Barrier Reef is its most high profile victim, few corals will escape undamaged from the epidemic.
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The Australian Marine Conservation Society called it "bad news for coral and wildlife" in and around the Great Barrier Reef.
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They document the ongoing bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef as ocean temperatures continue to be driven upward by climate change.
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Your questions answered Coral bleaching, which is caused by warmer ocean temperatures, has already destroyed half of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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Widespread bleaching of shallow soft corals in the Great Barrier Reef near Lizard Island by Queensland, Australia on June 6, 2016.
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Greens have campaigned against the project, calling it a spur to global warming and a threat to the Great Barrier Reef.
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Faster warming is already resulting in tangible, harmful impacts, from coral bleaching across the Great Barrier Reef to rapidly intensifying hurricanes.
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The refinery is close to Halifax Bay, which is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and World Heritage Area.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world and the only living structure visible from space.
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It's a milestone marine biologists say we need to adhere to if we want to keep the Great Barrier Reef alive.
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The Great Barrier Reef is more of not just home of thousands of species of fish, birds, coral, whales and dolphins.
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The world's third-largest barrier reef, along the Florida Keys, is in imminent danger from climate change, The Washington Post reports.
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In fact, Australia's Great Barrier Reef will never be the same following the devastating marine heat wave of 2015 and 2016.
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On completion, it is set to be the world's largest living structure, three times the size of the Great Barrier Reef.
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The long-tailed, whiskered creature, called the Bramble Cay melomys, was considered the only mammal endemic to the Great Barrier Reef.
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But state authorities have pushed ahead with plans for an immense coal mine in Queensland, inland from the Great Barrier Reef.
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The longest barrier reef in the western hemisphere, the Mesoamerican reef stretches more than 1,000 kilometers from the Yucatan to Honduras.
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"We'll be conducting further aerial surveys this week in the central Great Barrier Reef to identify where it stops," Hughes said.
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The scientists said areas of the Great Barrier Reef, a world heritage site, are experiencing the worst bleaching in 15 years.
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Crown-of-thorns starfish, coral-chompers that have proliferated in some areas, including Australia's Great Barrier Reef, add to the stress.
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A dying patch of the Great Barrier Reef has yielded hope, in the form of "super corals" that managed to survive.
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The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, made up of almost 22012,3.443 individual reefs and 23.44 islands.
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The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, made up of almost 693,000 individual reefs and 900 islands.
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The ship bounded through the Pacific Ocean, scraping up against the Great Barrier Reef and stopping in New Zealand and Tahiti.
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Coral reefs will also be drastically affected, with between 1.53 and 90% expected to die off, including Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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The Great Barrier Reef, one of the seven natural wonders of the world, is a protected park and World Heritage site.
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Since 2009 we've been annually surveying 16 reefs across the Belizean Barrier Reef, half of which are inside a protected reserve.
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"We didn't expect to see this level of destruction to the Great Barrier Reef for another 30 years," one scientist said.
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Through the program, Ella got to fill them with virtual trips to Egypt, the Grand Canyon and the Great Barrier Reef.
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This week he narrated "Planet Earth: Blue Planet II"; now, he appears onscreen to explore the Great Barrier Reef off Australia.
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The Great Barrier Reef, for instance, may not be able to recover from major recent bleaching events linked to climate change.
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They document the ongoing bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef as ocean temperatures continue to be driven upward by climate change.
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He said focusing on protecting the more heat-tolerant coral species is key to ensuring the survival of the Great Barrier Reef.
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The Great Barrier Reef provides Australia with nearly $6 billion in revenue from tourism and fishing, including employment for almost 70,000 people.
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Shading reefs using a polymer film as a sunscreen to cool them is under discussion for parts of the Great Barrier Reef.
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Even reefs that had not experienced any recent extensive bleaching, such as the northernmost areas of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, suffered badly.
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It generates $4.45 billion in tourism revenue annually and supports nearly 70,000 jobs, according to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.
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Great Barrier Reef coral spawn yearly in a mass event that sees the waters off north Queensland filled with eggs and sperm.
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In Australia, the Great Barrier Reef provides nearly $6 billion in revenue from tourism and fishing, including employment for almost 70,000 people.
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It's not clear how long it will take—or even if—the bleached portions of the Great Barrier Reef will bounce back.
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This is something that could be under threat in the Great Barrier Reef due to the current mass bleaching of coral reefs.
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The Great Barrier Reef is currently facing a devastating coral bleaching event — a phenomenon set to get worse as the world warms.
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And as water temperatures rise, vast expanses of life sustaining coral, such as Australia's Great Barrier Reef, are also bleaching and dying.
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These climate change-induced effects have taken a particularly devastating toll on the Great Barrier Reef off the east coast of Australia.
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The Great Barrier Reef is in serious danger of dying, and stopping global warming could be the only way to save it.
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The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Queensland, Australia, have documented one such heart-warming return of a rescued turtle named Summer.
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A 2016 ocean heatwave around the Great Barrier Reef was associated with mass die-offs of 30 percent of its coral population.
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The innovation, created by the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, won a People's Choice Award at the 2016 Google Impact Challenge in Australia.
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Climate scientists say rising ocean temperatures have fueled more powerful storms and are killing off underwater wildlife like Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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Within a few decades, we could witness widespread ecological collapse—not just in the Great Barrier Reef, but on a global scale.
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Students watching the North Pole melt and the Great Barrier Reef die are demanding a Green New Deal for jobs and climate.
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"This is a potential mechanism for restocking the Great Barrier Reef," says geologist Scott Bryan from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT).
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Coral bleaching has caused extensive damage to regions extending from the Great Barrier Reef to the Caribbean and nearly everywhere in between.
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Here's a short video researchers compiled of aerial shots that capture the extent of bleaching along the Great Barrier Reef in 2017:
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Scientists said the Great Barrier Reef needs a break in El Nino conditions within weeks if some coral areas are to survive.
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Although it might seem that damage to the Great Barrier Reef mostly affects Australia, this die-off could affect the entire globe.
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Since 1998, the Great Barrier Reef has suffered four mass bleaching events, two of them back to back in 2016 and 2017.
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The Bramble Cay melomys were long-tailed, whiskered creatures who lived on an island in the Great Barrier Reef; today none exist.
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The most striking example is probably mass bleaching and coral mortality on Australia's Great Barrier Reef in 2016 and again this year.
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Unlike the Great Wall of China, the Great Barrier Reef, which extends more than fourteen hundred miles, actually is visible from space.
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"We didn't expect to see this level of destruction to the Great Barrier Reef for another 30 years," he told The Times.
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When it comes to climate change's impact on the Great Barrier Reef, the Australian government has by-and-large ignored the problem.
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Among them was the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, which suffered consecutive mass bleaching events and a dramatic uptick in coral mortality.
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More than 2,000 coral reef scientists have sent a letter to the Australian government pleading for it to protect the Great Barrier Reef.
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High tides lap at Florida streets; Antarctica is splitting; allergies are getting worse; the Great Barrier Reef is hanging on by a thread.
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Qantas Airlines, meanwhile, launched a video in the Oculus store last year about Hamilton Island, a vacation destination along the Great Barrier Reef.
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All told, Hughes estimates that 95 percent of the northern Great Barrier Reef is "severely bleached," marking the worst such event on record.
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If global carbon emissions continue to grow unchecked, the authors' models predict coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef crashing by mid-century.
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The Great Barrier Reef off Australia suffered severe bleaching, a whitening driven by warm waters that can kill corals, in 2016 and 2017.
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Parts of Eddy Reef, one of the hundreds of separate coral formations that make up the 2,300km-long Great Barrier Reef, are stunning.
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One level deeper: Several Liberal Party candidates won in the state of Queensland, near the Great Barrier Reef, per the New York Times.
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Before 2016 there had only been two bleaching events along the Great Barrier Reef in the past two decades, in 1998 and 2002.
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Scientists in Australia have recorded "severe" coral bleaching across large parts of the Great Barrier Reef for the second time in 12 months.
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AROUND THE WEB: Large sections of the Great Barrier Reef are dying, the victim of warm ocean temperatures, The New York Times reports.
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Right-wing Australian politician and climate change waffler Pauline Hanson visited the Great Barrier Reef Friday and declared everything looked fine to her.
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Mr. Gaskell, 38, is one of six full-time marine biologists at Daydream Island Resort, in the middle of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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Port Douglas is one of the access points to the Great Barrier Reef, but it's less crowded and touristy than the nearby Cairns.
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Harrison plans to do further similar experiments on a bigger scale in the northern area of the Great Barrier Reef later this year.
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I was reminded of that image once again by the growing crescendo of news stories about the demise of the Great Barrier Reef.
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The Great Barrier Reef, located off the coast of Queensland, Australia, stretches for 1,429 miles over an area of about 133,000 square miles.
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Before 2016, there had only been two bleaching events along the Great Barrier Reef in the past two decades, in 1998 and 2002.
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The Great Barrier Reef is more than 1,400 miles long, and in some places it stretches more than 180 miles out to sea.
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The pumice is slowly drifting towards Australia, where scientists hope it will bring healthy corals and other organisms to the Great Barrier Reef.
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The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef, but about one-third of its coral died in 2018 because of bleaching events.
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Looking towards the future, the artist will continue to work on Giants along with a new series covering the deteriorating Great Barrier Reef.
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Google Expeditions also offers a tour of the Great Barrier Reef, off of Australia's coast, which you can currently explore through Google Maps.
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To discover GREAT BARRIER REEF, MAKING AN ENTRANCE, and TEN THOUSAND YEARS required much tenacity, intuition and no small modicum of good luck.
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In April, a paper in Science warned that the Great Barrier Reef may lose its ability to bounce back as global warming continues.
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Near the Great Barrier Reef, for example, a stay at Heron Island Resort comes at much lower prices, compared with other hotels nearby.
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KEITH SCHOLEY I think the bit that shocked me was the coral bleaching in a 500-mile stretch of the Great Barrier Reef.
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Experts say that if the pumice makes it to the Great Barrier Reef, it could help replenish some of the lost marine life.
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One night, while sailing along Australia's eastern coast, the ship swiped the jagged coral of the Great Barrier Reef, leaving a gaping hole.
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It warned that the Great Barrier Reef in particular could experience mass coral bleaching every two years by 2034, if current trends continue.
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A report provided an answer on Monday, declaring that the Great Barrier Reef was worth 56 billion Australian dollars, or about $333 billion.
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And, as the bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef shows, the oceans are already struggling to adapt to a warmer, more acidic world.
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A bleaching event the next year devastated even more reefs; the cumulative effects have killed an estimated half of the Great Barrier Reef.
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When you look down at the seafloor off the coast of California, you see the exact opposite of the Great Barrier Reef: bupkis.
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Not all patches of coastal ocean can be the Great Barrier Reef, but that doesn't mean they should all look like lifeless deserts.
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Australian conservationist and "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin died in 2006 after being stung multiple times by a stingray off the Great Barrier Reef.
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" Another group predicted that, by midcentury, visitors to places like the Great Barrier Reef will find nothing more than "rapidly eroding rubble banks.
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Tourists may be flocking down under to view the famously colorful Great Barrier Reef before it bleaches further due to warming sea temperatures.
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Marine heatwaves cooked the Great Barrier Reef in 2016 and 2017, killing half of all coral stretched along its roughly 1,400-mile expanse.
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Steve Irwin's life was cut short when he was impaled through the chest by a stingray in 2006 near the Great Barrier Reef.
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Coral reefs seem to be having a bad century, with global bleaching events and the Great Barrier Reef fading away before our eyes.
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"The Great Barrier Reef is the canary in the coal mine for climate change," Basha Stasak of the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) told VICE.
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Today's study, published in Nature, is one of the most comprehensive and exhaustive views of the current state of the world's largest barrier reef.
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Because sharks are slow to mature and produce relatively few offspring, they are in decline in the Great Barrier Reef and around the world.
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Prices from $4,899, which includes accommodations, breakfast, a helicopter ride at the Great Barrier Reef, city tour and opera performance in Sydney and transfers.
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Global warming is exacerbating its frequent floods and droughts, and has devastated big parts of the Great Barrier Reef, which stretches along its coast.
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Update 3/15/17 3:03 PM: A new paper in Nature reveals that things are going really poorly for the Great Barrier Reef.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef is one of the world's great wonders, but scientists have been surprised to find something equally spectacular lurking behind it.
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Following bad news after bad news for the Great Barrier Reef, the Australian government has pledged a large sum of money for its preservation.
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Of those visiting Australia, one-third of arrivals are travelling as a couple, and the most popular destination is (unsurprisingly) the Great Barrier Reef.
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Record high temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, fueled by global warming and a powerful El Niño, caused mass bleaching throughout the Great Barrier Reef.
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The most popular tourist spot is the island of Ambergris Caye, which is about a half-mile from the world's second-largest barrier reef.
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" While the real answer was the "Great Barrier Reef," the very clever teen wrote, and successfully got Alex Trebek to say, "What are those?
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Bryan Fry argues the uniqueness of the blenny, from its venom to its evolution, highlights why conservation of the Great Barrier Reef is vital.
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In 2016, scientists at Australia's Southern Cross University collected coral eggs and sperm from the Great Barrier Reef during its annual November spawning event.
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Respondents were most worried about the impact of droughts and floods on food security, the fate of the Great Barrier Reef and more bushfires.
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Studies of the procreative dance are considered vital for helping save beleaguered coral reefs around the globe, including the Great Barrier Reef off Australia.
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This summer, some scientists gained hope that a giant "raft" of floating pumice rock spotted near Australia could help replenish the Great Barrier Reef.
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Home to the largest coral reef system in the world, the Great Barrier Reef is among the best scuba diving destinations on the planet.
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In Australia, during 20153, 29% of the 3,863 reefs that comprise the world's largest coral reef system -- the Great Barrier Reef -- were severely damaged.
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Most people think of Australia when they hear 'barrier reef' but savvy divers think Belize, which is home to the world's second largest one.
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Bleaching is not necessarily fatal for coral, but 2016 was also the highest level of coral mortality ever recorded on the Great Barrier Reef.
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Mark Eakin, coordinator of Coral Reef Watch, told NASA that this is alarming because the current bleaching along the Great Barrier Reef is ongoing.
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The 2016 marine heat wave caused the most severe and catastrophic coral bleaching event the Great Barrier Reef has ever experienced, the study found.
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One new Expedition now available, designed and produced by Sir David Attenborough and Alchemy VR, lets students go underwater at Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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One of the most immediately damaging components of the Carmichael project will be the transportation of coal directly through the Great Barrier Reef itself.
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The Great Barrier Reef, encompassing an area equivalent to that of Japan, employs people in the tourism, fishing, recreational activity and scientific research industries.
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"This time it is not as intense, but it's much more widespread, so we're seeing it all over the Great Barrier Reef," he said.
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The brilliant colors of the Great Barrier Reef and other swatches of coral depend on that water staying within a certain range of temperatures.
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In the northeastern state of Queensland, which stretches from Brisbane to the tropics near the Great Barrier Reef, several Liberal Party candidates won handily.
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That could be good news for Australia's Great Barrier Reef, which is where the raft is projected to wind up in about a year.
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UNESCO's World Heritage Committee last year called for global action on climate change to protect five large coral reefs, including the Great Barrier Reef.
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The Amazon can cease to be a rainforest; the Great Barrier Reef bleaches and dies like any other coral in a too-warm sea.
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But in reality, the Great Barrier Reef, which consists of a massive amount of coral, is deteriorating due to a process called coral bleaching.
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In 2016, one-third of the 3,863 reefs in the Great Barrier Reef system went through a catastrophic die-off after an extreme heatwave.
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" All is not well, however, with the GBRMPA describing climate change as "the greatest threat to the Great Barrier Reef and coral reefs worldwide.
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The Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest and longest coral reef, lost about half its coral following unrelenting warm waters in 2016 and 2017.
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Surveys of the Great Barrier Reef conducted by Professor Hughes from low-flying aircraft showed that extensive patches of reef may be beyond saving.
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Water temperatures there remain so high that another round of mass bleaching is underway, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority confirmed last week.
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A team of Aussie researchers has discovered an enormous reef behind the Great Barrier Reef which had been "hiding in plain sight" for decades.
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Unfortunately, what we are now seeing on the northern third of the Great Barrier Reef is the death of many of these beautiful organisms.
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Australia, for its part, just approved a massive coal mine in Queensland that could further cover parts of the Great Barrier Reef in sediment.
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Southward of Cairns, Queensland, on the central Great Barrier Reef, the "average mortality is estimated at only 5%," with 25% bleaching rates, the scientists report.
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Interactive screens detail the broad history of Honduras, and VR sets let visitors swim along the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef by Roatán, painting a sunny picture.
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Sporting a coastline stretching some 280,20103 kilometers and the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef system, the northeastern Australian state boasts incredible biodiversity.
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Coral and fish populations in the Great Barrier Reef recovered more quickly from bleaching, starfish attacks, diseases and storms in areas where fishing is banned.
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"The Great Barrier Reef acts like a giant porous breakwater to reduce the energy [of ocean swell]," said Beaman in an interview with the BBC.
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Outside Magazine published a somewhat tongue-in-cheek obituary for the Great Barrier Reef earlier this week, citing its lifespan from 25 million BC-2016.
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By putting the loss of the Great Barrier Reef into economic terms, it's hoped that people might finally start to take note and respond accordingly.
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Since then, we've seen massive coral die-offs in Australia's Great Barrier Reef, as well as reefs in Florida, Hawaii, and across the South Pacific.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - An English tourist died on Friday while scuba diving at Australia's Great Barrier Reef, according to police, the third fatality there this week.
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Some $ is better than none, but the Great Barrier Reef will not survive unless we urgently limit temperature increases, by foregoing coal & moving to renewables.
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And they fear harm to the Great Barrier Reef, from the increased maritime traffic and the warming effect of the coal once it is burnt.
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The big picture: WSJ writes... One level deeper: Several Liberal Party candidates won in the state of Queensland, near the Great Barrier Reef, per NYT.
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In March, coral reef scientists first raised the alarm about the third-ever global coral bleaching event reaching the iconic Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
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According to early assessments out Thursday from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, 22 percent of the reef died in this year's horrific bleaching.
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The ice caps are melting, the U.S. dropped 59 Tomahawk missiles on Syria last week, and someone wrote an obituary for the Great Barrier Reef.
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The tourist, who is from Hawaii and has been traveling along the Queensland coast and Great Barrier Reef for about three years, was not hurt.
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Melanie opened the closet door, revealing bins of clothes and toys, boxed board games and puzzles, including the Great Barrier Reef and the Solar System.
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This year, in a survey of 520 reefs that form the northern section of the Great Barrier Reef, scientists found only four free of bleaching.
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The Great Barrier Reef is home to the world's largest collection of coral reefs, with about 3.73 types of coral and 1,500 species of fish.
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Repeated damage could prompt UNESCO's World Heritage Committee to reconsider a 2015 decision not to put the Great Barrier Reef on its "in danger" list.
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By the time it ended, in June of last year, almost a third of the shallow-water corals on the Great Barrier Reef were dead.
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After taking an aerial survey of the Great Barrier Reef, one of Australia's most prominent coral biologists, Terry Hughes, showed the results to his students.
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The cumulative consequence of all of that is that we don't know how well the Great Barrier Reef is going to recover from those events.
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The mine has battled a string of lawsuits from environmental groups, who argue it will contribute to global warming and damage Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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And, fertility treatments are being used to save species at risk of extinction like the northern white rhino and coral in the Great Barrier Reef.
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"It won't work because Australians realize that the Great Barrier Reef is under terrible threat," Larissa Waters, a Greens senator from Queensland told the ABC.
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About 22 percent of coral on the Great Barrier Reef died due to the worst mass coral bleaching event on record, according to an Oct.
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New research from Melbourne-based scientists may provide a way to redesign the Great Barrier Reef around stress-tolerant corals to withstand warm ocean waters.
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The Bramble Cay melomys is a tiny, cartoon-worthy rodent that is believed to be the only mammal that lived on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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Additionally, Google says it's rolling out two more "Expeditions" – that is, the virtual experiences enabled by the program: the Great Barrier Reef and Buckingham Palace.
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Ocean acidification cut the growth of a coral reef on Australia's Great Barrier Reef by one-third, according to a study published Wednesday in Nature.
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By the 26s, Australia's Great Barrier Reef could experience devastating mass bleachings as often as every two years — unless greenhouse gas emissions are drastically reduced.
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It starts with an eye-opener: a 40-foot tunnel smack through a huge tank filled with fish from the Great Barrier Reef and Fiji.
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A proliferation of crown-of-thorns starfish in the Great Barrier Reef in 2018 was caused by nearby fertilizer runoff, which helped the starfish breed.
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"One of the things I was quite proud of that the project achieved was to understand how connected the Great Barrier Reef is," he said.
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As the oceans get hotter, so-called "marine heatwaves" are becoming more intense, turning coral reefs boneyard white -- including much of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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Even in hard-hit areas, large patches of the Great Barrier Reef survived, and guides will most likely take tourists there, avoiding the dead zones.
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As the oceans get hotter, so-called "marine heatwaves" are becoming more intense, turning coral reefs boneyard white — including much of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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Known for its vast size, rich marine ecosystem, and brilliant coloration, the Great Barrier Reef is probably the most famous coral reef in the world.
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New findings released this week revealed that the Great Barrier Reef is getting hit the hardest, with 93 percent of its coral bleached in total.
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The Great Barrier Reef is dying at a rate not expected for another 30 years The Great Barrier Reef is dying at a rate not expected for another 5003 years Scientists didn't expect such dire conditions for at least another 30 years, but due to climate change, one of the world's most spectacular natural wonders is dying at a much faster rate than previously thought.
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The Great Barrier Reef is as cool as one would expect with its bright coral and huge fish, plus we saw Nemo so we were happy!
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OSLO (Reuters) - Billions of bits of plastic waste are entangled in corals and sickening reefs from Thailand to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, scientists said on Thursday.
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Marine scientists distributed carbon dioxide-infused seawater across the Great Barrier Reef to simulate how acidic the oceans will likely be in the next few decades.
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The Great Barrier Reef is almost gone, and we know what the warming world will do to the world's poorest people, who will suffer the most.
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You can take a guided tour down the depths of Australia's Great Barrier Reef in a live broadcast on Twitter's Periscope on Thursday, 12:30 p.m.
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Scientists and environmental advocates are up in arms after lumps of coal were found washed up on beaches around Australia's Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.
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The bleaching event was caused by global warming and an El Niño event, but additional pollutants near the Great Barrier Reef are unwelcome under any circumstances.
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The N4 license allows fishing in an area between just south of Maryborough to the Torres Strait, encompassing a large area of the Great Barrier Reef.
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The damage being done to its health is visible in a few liminal places—the Great Barrier Reef, say, or the oyster farms of Washington state.
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Great Barrier Reef Marine Park rangers started receiving reports back in January, the start of Australia's summer, that the coral wasn't looking too good this year.
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Unfortunately for Google, what's happening in Australia's Great Barrier Reef isn't exactly a point of view, but more of a consensus among scientists and climate experts.
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Reef-forming corals prefer shallow water so, as the world's sea levels have yo-yoed during the Ice Ages, the barrier reef has come and gone.
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In 2006, Australian conservationist and "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin died after a stingray's serrated barb pierced his heart while filming off Australia's northern Great Barrier Reef.
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If you were hoping to read the censored section of the report on the Great Barrier Reef, Guardian Australia obtained a copy of it late yesterday.
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Image: ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef StudiesFor the second time in 12 months, Australia's Great Barrier Reef has experienced a severe coral bleaching event.
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Australia's Minister for the Environment and Energy Josh Frydenberg said in a statement that climate change was the "number one threat" to the Great Barrier Reef.
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The Australian researchers said the final death toll in the northern Great Barrier Reef won't be known until all the surveys are completed in mid-November.
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Indeed, the Belize Barrier Reef was recently removed from a list of endangered ecosystems through active management and progressive conservation policies implemented by the Belizean government.
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This report comes just months after the mass bleaching crisis in the Great Barrier Reef, which saw over 67 percent of corals in one area dead.
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It's led Ellen DeGeneres to urge the country to save the Great Barrier Reef, as part of a heavily-branded Disney campaign called "Remember The Reef".
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The "heroin-like" venom of a fish found on the Great Barrier Reef could be developed into new painkillers, say researchers from the University of Queensland.
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The ad campaign focuses on Australia's "coastal and aquatic experiences," which range from snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef to taking a helicopter ride over Victoria.
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The exhibit tunes into the distressed state of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, rendering a myriad of coral formations from those in good health to those ailing.
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The Great Barrier Reef is considered to be one of the seven natural wonders of the world and is the largest living structure on the planet.
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Eakin said it was surprising how little heat stress was needed to cause the complete collapse of coral reef ecosystems in the northern Great Barrier Reef.
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Narrator: In 21 and 26, the Great Barrier Reef was hit with a massive marine heat wave, leading to the longest coral-bleaching events ever recorded.
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At Australia's Great Barrier Reef, up to 50 percent of previously healthy sections in the north have bleached and died, scientists in Australia said in May.
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November 14, 2017 Earth science factors in heavily today, as we report on an earthquake in Iran and a spawning event in the Great Barrier Reef.
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They will also visit the Great Barrier Reef and be informed of the government's efforts to protect it over the course of the three-day trip.
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Separately, there is evidence that the Great Barrier Reef in Australia is experiencing its worst coral bleaching on record as a result of rising sea temperatures.
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Opponents have argued the coal exports would stoke global warming and that the project would require a port expansion that could damage the Great Barrier Reef.
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However, conservation groups like the Australian Institute of Marine Science disagree with the assurances that current regulations will safeguard the Great Barrier Reef from further harm.
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And, on the rough shores of the Great Barrier Reef, Kolbert watches a loggerhead turtle try and fail to find a place to lay an egg.
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He added that in 2016, a marine heat wave was estimated to have killed about a third of the shallow corals on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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Scientists said the Great Barrier Reef remains compromised from heat stress that occurred last summer, and during the warmer-than-usual months of February and March.
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"Whenever coral in any location in the Great Barrier Reef is threatened or stressed, it is of concern," said Fred Nucifora, a spokesman for the authority.
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Australia has warmed faster than the global average, its Great Barrier Reef has been devastated and this year extreme weather events have dented the nation's economy.
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The Great Barrier Reef has experienced devastating biodiversity losses in recent decades, as corals die off in the warming waters caused by human-driven climate change.
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Resorts along the world-famous Great Barrier Reef and coastal areas bore the brunt of the storm with wind gusts stronger than 260 kph (160 mph).
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The Great Barrier Reef and our kelp forests, which extend across the bottom of Australia, are dying because of ocean warming, acidification and cattle station runoff.
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A recent study found that underwater speakers placed close to dead coral in Australia's Great Barrier Reef encouraged new fish to show up and settle in.
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Last October when I was living in Australia, I took a trip to Cairns, a coastal city known as the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef.
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Perplexingly, the same body last month warned the Great Barrier Reef will be dead by the end of this century unless countries sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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CORAL will use a state-of-the-art spectrometer to map reefs in four locations: Hawaii, Palau, the Mariana Islands, and parts of the Great Barrier Reef.
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After an extensive six-month study, Deloitte Access Economics has come up with a price tag for the Great Barrier Reef: AU $2000 billion [$42 billion USD].
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Instead of braaains, these zombies munch coral, and off the coast of Australia, infestations of the beasts are damaging the Great Barrier Reef at an alarming rate.
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After all, many overseas visitors to the country head for locations outside Airbnb's key markets of Sydney and Melbourne — the Great Barrier Reef or Uluru, for example.
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The study, published in the journal Nature, shows that many coral species that comprise the Great Barrier Reef succumbed to ocean temperatures that were well above average.
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"Crown-of-thorns is one of the biggest threats to not only the Great Barrier Reef but other reefs throughout the Indo-Pacific," the latter tells VICE.
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El Niño has likely played a large part in the coral bleaching events this year in the Great Barrier Reef, as well as in Hawaii and Fiji.
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We knew coral bleaching was a serious issue in the Great Barrier Reef, but the scope of just how widespread it was has been unclear — until now.
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You probably haven't heard of the Great Southern Reef, which receives far less media attention than its ill-fated neighbor to the north, the Great Barrier Reef.
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The amazing life of David Attenborough Beaman told state broadcaster ABC that the rings could shed light on historic temperature and conditions in the Great Barrier Reef.
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A site of vivid beauty, the Great Barrier Reef is one of our planet's natural wonders and home to the largest collection of coral reefs on earth.
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"We've now mapped the Halimeda bioherms to cover just over 6,000 square kilometres (1.5 million acres) on the outer shelf of the Great Barrier Reef," she said.
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A recent study showed how vulnerable Australia's Great Barrier Reef is to climate change, but the question of what to do about it is far from settled.
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Over the past two years unusually hot water has killed a third of the coral on the Great Barrier Reef, one of the country's greatest natural treasures.
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The Great Barrier Reef Foundation, a charity conservation organization, commissioned the 3.23-page analysis, with support from the Great Barrier Marine Park Authority and National Australia Bank.
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"We've had two major bleaching events [in the Great Barrier Reef] in 1998 and 2002, and we're potentially facing another mass bleaching event this year," he said.
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The Great Barrier Reef is one of the world's treasures, but is at risk due to coral bleaching as a result of climate change and government inaction.
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"I'm a big fan of your beautiful, great, wonderful Great Barrier Reef, which is home to my favourite fish, Dory," she said in a video released Wednesday.
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All three environmentally conscious drinks were created by three chefs (Spencer Patrick, Ryan Squires, and Ben O'Donoghue) to directly impact the wellbeing of the Great Barrier Reef.
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While at work, Spark encounters head-on the disastrous and already-evident consequences of climate change, such as the mass coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef.
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Offshore drilling in Belize would threaten the country's seven World Heritage Sites and the Belizean Barrier Reef, part of the second largest reef system in the world.
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In 73 and 2017, half of all corals died in the Great Barrier Reef in one of the most harrowing back-to-back bleaching events ever seen.
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Image: Peter MumbyThe timing of the new Science paper is coincidental—but the sorry state of the Great Barrier Reef makes its conclusions all the more salient.
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The outlook for the Great Barrier Reef has further darkened with evidence of an unprecedented second consecutive bleaching event this year, researchers at James Cook University said.
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Unseasonably warm waters threatens to cause bleaching of the central region of the Great Barrier Reef, which avoided the large-scale damage from the bleaching in 2016.
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On the other side of the southern hemisphere, the Great Barrier Reef is experiencing coral bleaching, which is when heat stress kills coral by driving algae away.
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Australian scientists said on Wednesday that just seven percent of the Great Barrier Reef remains untouched by mass bleaching that is likely to destroy half the coral.
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Unemployment in the city, a stepping off point for the Great Barrier Reef, is at 10 percent and youth unemployment is running at more than 20 percent.
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Scientists reported that the recent coral die-off at the Great Barrier Reef, a World Heritage site off the coast of Australia, was the worst ever recorded.
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The itinerary includes stays in Sydney, Byron Bay and the Great Barrier Reef; a boat trip around the Whitsundays Islands; and a day trip to Fraser Island.
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UNESCO's World Heritage Committee last May stopped short of placing the Great Barrier Reef on an "in danger" list, but the ruling raised concern about its future.
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The Great Barrier Reef Authority, an Australian government agency, based its announcement of mass bleaching on observations, still underway, made in the water and from the air.
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The Bight's marine environment is starting to be recognized by scientists as part of a "Great Southern Reef" that rivals the Great Barrier Reef for ecological value.
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It turns out that 99 percent of green sea turtles hatched in the northern Great Barrier Reef are now female because their sex is determined by temperature.
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Unfortunately, recent weather forecasts suggest that southern sanctuary—along with the rest of the Great Barrier Reef—may be in for another bout of heat-induced bleaching.
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So far, well-documented bleaching events like these new results show have hit Australia's Great Barrier Reef four times: in 269, 2000, 2016 and now in 2017.
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So far, well-documented bleaching events like these new results show have hit Australia's Great Barrier Reef four times: in 1998, 2002, 2016 and now in 2017.
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In fact, in 2016 and 2017, successive marine heat waves killed off around half of the coral on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest reef habitat.
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If water temperatures stay moderate, the damaged sections of the Great Barrier Reef may be covered with corals again in as few as 10 or 15 years.
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This year, the Bramble Cay melomys, an Australian rodent endemic to the Great Barrier Reef, was the first mammal driven to extinction by man-made climate change.
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As the oceans get hotter, what are known as "marine heatwaves" are becoming more intense, turning coral reefs boneyard white -- including much of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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According to the researchers, over 6000 square kilometers of seafloor around the Great Barrier Reef have been mapped, revealing the extent of this field of Halimeda bioherms.
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In the last few years, mass animal die-offs have affected almost every last corner of the world, from the Great Barrier Reef to the Siberian Tundra.
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The Australian government wants millions of dollars from a Chinese company after its ship, the Shen Neng 1, ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef in April 2010.
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When the polyps die, macro or turf algae take over — a process that is already evident along parts of the 800 km of worst-affected Great Barrier Reef.
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The Great Barrier Reef suffered its most devastating die-off on record last year, according to a report from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies.
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Though it is just an hour's drive down a winding road from Cairns, Australia's gateway to the Great Barrier Reef, Yarrabah has not benefited from a similar boom.
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Those living on drought-afflicted farms or on the coast by the heat-stricken Great Barrier Reef feel its effects most keenly, but even urban voters are anxious.
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For the past three years, Karina Jones from James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, has been investigating fibropapillomatosis (FP) among green sea turtles in the Great Barrier Reef.
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According to the study, the number of new corals settling on the Great Barrier Reef declined by 89% following the assault on adult corals in 2016 and 2017.
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The Great Barrier Reef, which is already suffering from climate change, is also harmed by the extra sediment washed into the ocean, which can prevent coral from photosynthesising.
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In the worst hit area, the Great Barrier Reef had seen an average of 67 percent of "shallow water corals" die over the past eight to nine months.
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In Australia, scientists recently announced that 93 percent of the Great Barrier Reef has succumbed to coral bleaching, a destructive phenomenon that occurs when ocean temperatures rise sharply.
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Australia is on the wrong track here: In 2015, the government approved plans to expand coal exports via ship in the southern part of the Great Barrier Reef.
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These minute organisms are the building blocks of The Great Barrier Reef, which at 1,400 miles long is the largest living structure on Earth -- visible even from space.
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Adani has battled environment groups trying to block what would be Australia's biggest coal mine, arguing it will contribute to global warming and damage the Great Barrier Reef.
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Aside from multi-colored coral reefs, the pink sunset on the Heron Island, a coral cay along the Southern Great Barrier Reef, is also a sight to behold.
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Other impacts from the warmer oceans include bleaching and death of coral reefs, which have been significant in recent years in the Great Barrier Reef off of Australia.
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Cassius, a crocodile living in a wildlife park that sits in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, is the largest crocodile in captivity, according to Guinness World Records.
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In 2018, a Carnival cruise ship accidentally spilled thousands of gallons of food waste into the already-fragile Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia, CNN reported.
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In April, Australian scientists found that bleaching hit 93 percent of the Great Barrier Reef, the result of record-warm water driven by El Niño and climate change.
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For instance, while the colorful, branching Acropora corals that dominate the northern Great Barrier Reef have been hit hard by bleaching, slower growing, dome-shaped corals appear resilient.
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On Monday, word rapidly spread through environmental circles that he had died at age 70 while snorkeling with a companion near Lizard Island on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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Adani also continues to face legal and social hurdles amid opposition from environment groups arguing the mine will contribute to global warming and damage the Great Barrier Reef.
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Mundane Matters worked with Eco Barge, an Australian not-for-profit organisation that has been collecting ocean plastic in Great Barrier Reef region for the last nine years.
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Australia is on the wrong track here: In 260, the government approved plans to expand coal exports via ship in the southern part of the Great Barrier Reef.
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"The reef continues to experience heat stress, with sea surface temperatures remaining significantly warmer than average for April," the Great Barrier Reef Maritime Park Authority announced this week.
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This was also the week, for example, when the Great Barrier Reef Foundation announced its first project since it received A$7000 million from the government last year.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef: For the third time in five years, abnormally warm water has caused a "mass bleaching" of coral, and some of it will not survive.
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The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, supporting thousands of species of fish and mollusks, and providing livelihood to Australia through tourism and fishing.
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An enormous raft of volcanic powder is floating across the South Pacific Ocean, and may eventually end up enriching the Great Barrier Reef with nutrients and new lifeforms.
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When the pumice makes its way to the Great Barrier Reef, the sea life attached will travel too, potentially bringing diverse new colonies of barnacles, corals and more.
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And fit guys in tight cycling shirts who asked to take me out between a scuba trip to the barrier reef and training for a triathlon in Utah.
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"Over the past decade, we have documented a slow but positive recovery of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System," said Dr. Melanie McField, director of the Healthy Reefs Initiative.
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Perhaps the most striking moment is when the divers must cross the deck of a party boat to gain access to a section of the Great Barrier Reef.
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Under the sea It's not the Great Barrier Reef, but the newly discovered giant deep-sea coral reef, off South Carolina's coast, is still a pretty significant find.
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Over the course of six weeks, researchers from the U.K. and Australia played audio recordings over speakers installed underwater at dead patches found in Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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Warming oceans have killed huge sections of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, turning their glorious colors to a bleached white that's as dispiriting as a wilted brown cherry blossom.
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The cloud of destruction that looms over the Keys hovers over many tourist destinations affected by climate change: the Great Barrier Reef, the Galapagos, Montana's National Glacier Park.
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When the polyps die, macro or turf algae take over – a process that is already evident along parts of the 800 km of worst-affected Great Barrier Reef.
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Moreover, the island happens to sit directly on the edge of the most beautiful section of the Belize Barrier Reef, which is the second largest reef in the world.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef will never be the same following the devastating marine heat wave that hit it between 2015 and 20153, according to a new study published Wednesday.
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The Great Barrier Reef also faces pressure from ocean acidification and fishing impacts, ramping up concerns over how to protect one of the most unique ecosystems on the planet.
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Image: APThe past few months have brought another rough summer for the Great Barrier Reef, which is suffering a major bleaching event for the second year in a row.
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A study published in April in Science found that if global carbon emissions continue to grow unchecked, coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef will crash by mid-century.
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A satirical eulogy to the Great Barrier Reef went viral last year, and, as if it underscore how truly dire things are, loads of people thought it was real.
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Take it from the coral reef experts surveying it, as Gizmodo covered last year:The Great Barrier Reef is one of the most celebrated ecosystems on Earth—and it's dying.
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That's exactly what happened across the Great Barrier Reef earlier this year, in a record bleaching event that caused up to 50 percent mortality along the reef's northern margin.
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The Great Barrier Reef may be located in Queensland, Australia, but it really belongs to the world as the most well-known of all corals reefs on our planet.
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Fortunately for the Great Barrier Reef, the current forecast for heat stress and coral bleaching shows cooler conditions prevailing during the southern hemisphere's winter season, at least through September.
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Consecutive bleaching episodes in 2016 and 2017 affected a 1,500 kilometer stretch of Great Barrier Reef coral, an area which covers two-thirds of the total 563,300 km reef.
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The Great Barrier Reef supports a collective industry that offers more jobs to Australians than major corporations, such as the country's international airline Qantas or even Deloitte Australia itself.
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Today's study was conducted by a team led by Rebecca Albright and Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution for Science on One Tree Reef in Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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These include the third and longest-lasting global coral bleaching event, which is harming — and in some cases, killing — reefs from the Great Barrier Reef to the Florida Keys.
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The WWF rates the Great Barrier Reef, for instance, as under threat from mining and shipping, while last year, the Heritage Committee stopped short of an "in danger" listing.
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"You must not damage, collect or otherwise take coral, including dead coral ... in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park unless you have a Marine Parks permit," its site states.
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Within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary lies the world's third-largest barrier reef ecosystem, running nearly 150 miles from Soldier Key in Biscayne Bay to the Dry Tortugas.
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Advocates want to use rights law to address some of the world's worst cases of environmental destruction — be it the decaying Great Barrier Reef or the melting Himalayan glaciers.
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The effects of wave stress, rising sea temperatures, pollution and overfishing will be plotted against the data collected from the Great Barrier Reef, Hawaii, the Mariana Islands and Palau.
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Developers would have been required to address and mitigate any potential harms to the Great Barrier Reef and the bank would have had to consider alternative courses of action.
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UNESCO's World Heritage Committee last May stopped short of placing the Great Barrier Reef on an "in danger" list, but the ruling raised long-term concerns about its future.
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The Great Barrier Reef is being hit especially hard, with an estimated 29 percent of its shallow water corals dying from bleaching in 2016, according to the Australian government.
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Located just shy of 210 miles from the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland's Galilee Basin, the Carmichael thermal coal mine will be one of the largest in the world.
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Experts hope that the same science of identifying favorable genes and introducing them naturally through breeding could help other endangered species, including the corals of the Great Barrier Reef.
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For every species of butterflyfish or parrotfish you spot in the Caribbean, you might see three or more species in Southeast Asia's Coral Triangle or Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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SYDNEY, Australia — Two American tourists were killed on Wednesday when their helicopter crashed near a coral-viewing site on the Great Barrier Reef off northeastern Australia, the authorities said.
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The Climate Council report follows an April pledge by Australia's government to spend tens of millions of dollars to try to reverse the damage to the Great Barrier Reef.
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Then, back-to-back marine heat waves in 2016 and 2017 killed about half of the corals on the Great Barrier Reef, along with many others around the world.
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One of the natural wonders of the world, the Great Barrier Reef is roughly the length of Italy -- and provides a habitat for a diverse range of marine life.
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In parts of the Caribbean the average is less than 903 percent, and in the northern section of Australia's Great Barrier Reef coral coverage seldom climbs above 45 percent.
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InterContinental Hayman Island Resort, Whitsunday IslandsRing in 2020 alongside Australia&aposs Great Barrier Reef on the beautiful Whitsunday Islands, home to some of the whitest sand in the world.
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We later snorkeled on trips whenever we were by the sea, including the Red Sea, the Great Barrier Reef and even with sea lions in the Sea of Cortez.
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In 643, Andrew Ashcroft, a developer, approached Marriott about making Alaia, a 264-unit complex on the barrier reef of Belize's Ambergris Caye, part of the chain's Autograph Collection.
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Philadelphia Kuala Lumpur Thailand Shanghai Melbourne Tokyo Great Barrier Reef Sydney Mr. Lee New Zealand Ms. Ryles Philadelphia Spring 2009 Attended each other's senior proms in Shanghai and Tokyo.
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The worst of the damage so far appears to have been in the Whitsunday Islands, a popular destination for tourists hoping to catch a glimpse of the Great Barrier Reef.
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This year, amid record heat, 93% of the Great Barrier Reef experienced bleaching, the term used to describe sick coral that eject the bright-colored algae that live on them.
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In 2009, Queensland advertised for a wildlife caretaker for the Great Barrier Reef islands, attracting more than 35,000 applications from 200 countries, according to the Tourism and Events Queensland website.
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AEST, which features the founder of Earth Hour, Andy Ridley, and his new conservation project called Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef on how people can protect the natural site.
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During the first five months of 2016, sea surface temperatures across the Great Barrier Reef were the hottest on record—a full one degree Celsius higher than the monthly average.
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The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, for example, will probably require that the hybrid organisms AIMS hopes to test in the open reef are removed before they begin spawning.
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Sadly, this is a global problem and more than half of the Great Barrier Reef has disappeared in the past 27 years in large part due to fertilizer farm runoff.
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Street View already lets you visit and explore the Great Barrier Reef, the plains of the Serengeti, or the storefront of that nail salon you pulled up on Google Maps.
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The corals which adorn Australia's Great Barrier Reef have long been struggling due to global warming and pollution, but researchers may have found a way to potentially ease the decline.
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When he was still minister, more than 2,000 scientists also addressed the Australian government in a letter accusing it of shirking its responsibilities as steward of the Great Barrier Reef.
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This comes in response to a tongue-in-cheek obituary for the natural wonder published in Outside Magazine, "Great Barrier Reef (25 Million BC-2016)," by the writer Rowan Jacobsen.
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The funds from the settlement will allow the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority to begin removing anti-fouling paint and rubble from coral, Australia Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg said.
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The next few weeks are critical for the Great Barrier Reef as they face the impacts of what authorities have called the longest-ever global coral bleaching event on record.
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A growing number of sea turtles in Australia's Great Barrier Reef have been infected with a specific strain of herpes virus, and pollution might be the cause, New Scientist reports.
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Earlier this month, he headed for the Great Barrier Reef to see what "benign changes," as Abbott would have it, global warming has produced in the world's largest coral reef.
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That dogma began to crumble when graduate students at James Cook University in Australia followed a trail of clues to a nighttime mass spawning event on the Great Barrier Reef.
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The Great Barrier Reef, which stretches from the tip of northern Queensland more than 1,400 miles southward along Australia's east coast, has experienced significant coral bleaching over the last year.
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Other locals are trying to keep tourists out because of their physical impact on the space, like damaging ecosystems in places like the Great Barrier Reef and Zion National Park.
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Australia is pledging $500 million to a restoration program for the Great Barrier Reef, reports CNN, after marine heatwaves killed off corals in 2016, as a result of global warming.
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In another experiment in Australia's Great Barrier Reef, damselfish were less quick in their response to predators, and more likely to be prey, when motorboats passed over, stressing them out.
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And the foundation's first project — setting aside A$574,000 to finance a survey of remote parts of the Great Barrier Reef — has done little to douse the flames of outrage.
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From a stock-dumping investigation in the US senate, to coral bleaching in Australia's Great Barrier Reef, here are 10 major world events that you may have missed last week.
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Deadly starfish are feasting on parts of the world's largest reef system, which is already threatened by rising ocean temperatures, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority said on Friday.
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Andy Ridley, CEO of the collaborative movement Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef, spoke underwater in full scuba gear to showcase the baby corals regenerating at the outer Moore Reef.
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For comparison, the Carribean had just 50 fish over the same area and still couldn't be equaled by the northern Great Barrier Reef which had 220 per 1,000 square feet.
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While on these shoots, he would often take side trips to some of the world's premier diving destinations, like the Great Barrier Reef, where he could perfect his underwater photography.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Two elderly French tourists died on Wednesday in a bizarre tragedy after they both suffered heart attacks while snorkeling at Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the tour company said.
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Canberra will invest most of the 500 million Australian dollars (about $85033 million), in the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, and use part of it to fund federal and park agencies.
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"You are the keepers of an extraordinary section of the surface of this planet, including the Barrier Reef, and what you say, what you do, really, really matters," said Attenborough.
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"Why was I not, like a nice person, simply content to be, to enjoy beauty and inner peace?" she asks on a dismal boat trip to the Great Barrier Reef.
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Previous governments recognized their responsibility as "keepers of an extraordinary section" of the planet, including the Great Barrier Reef, Attenborough said in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
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Huge sections of the Great Barrier Reef, stretching across hundreds of miles of its most pristine northern sector, were recently found to be dead, killed last year by overheated seawater.
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A report by Climate Analytics found that if Queensland does not cut its carbon emissions, most of the Great Barrier Reef will be extinct in 12 years, according to ABC.
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They were initially highlighting loss in the Great Barrier Reef of their home country, Australia, then built larger and larger fiber ecologies with their Los Angeles-based Institute For Figuring.
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Most severe bleaching event yet Two major coral bleaching events in the Great Barrier Reef took place in 1998 and 2002, but Hughes said this year's had been the most devastating.
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"Greenpeace has just been on the Great Barrier Reef with a marine biologist to document the situation and it is heartbreaking," said Alix Foster Vander Elst, Campaigner for Greenpeace Australia Pacific.
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To save coral reefs around the world, global temperatures need to level off or decline, according to a new study of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) over the past 242 years.
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It was the kind of result many analysts had expected in Australia this year, after a run of wildfires and drought, and as warming waters kill off the Great Barrier Reef.
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As the world froze and melted and sea levels rose and fell over 30,1003 years, Australia's Great Barrier Reef, which is roughly the size of Italy, died and revived five times.
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Severe coral bleaching is now taking place in some parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, as marine areas suffer the effects of the longest-ever global coral bleaching event on record.
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The view put forward by some environmentalists that the mine will destroy the Great Barrier Reef or is some sort of tipping point in the battle against climate change is questionable.
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About a month later, the worst global coral bleaching event on record hit the Great Barrier Reef, causing more than 90 percent of the northern reef to turn a ghostly white.
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As New Scientist reported in 2014, the mining project could lead to some five millions of tons of dredged soil and sediment dumped directly inside the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
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So where the Great Barrier Reef ends up, in future decades, is really critically contingent on whether Australia and other countries can reach the two degree target of the Paris Agreement.
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The problem is that recovery can take more than a decade and this is the second straight year that we're seeing bleaching on a mass scale on the Great Barrier Reef.
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The 20-something shark, who resides at the Reef HQ Great Barrier Reef Aquarium in Queensland, had a rare "virgin birth," which produced three female pups named Cleo, CC, and Gemini.
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The Great Barrier Reef offered pieces as ornate and fragile as its namesake, and Rainbow Springs rendered her sound in oily impressionistic strokes, fluttering between Technicolor sequences with a deft hand.
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On Tuesday, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority announced that low level bleaching had been recorded on the reef, particularly in shallow areas that are more exposed to the sun.
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"This is the fourth time the Great Barrier Reef has bleached severely – in 1998, 2002, 2016, and now in 2017," James Kerry, who was also involved in the aerial surveys, said.
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Adani's Carmichael mine and rail project have been the target of protests for nearly a decade over worries about coal's impact on climate change and damage to the Great Barrier Reef.
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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is being pressed to explain why a group funded by mining companies got a massive government donation related to the Great Barrier Reef, the Australian reports.
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A controversial measure to dump more than 1 million tons of dredge spoil within the boundaries of the Great Barrier Reef marine park has reportedly been approved by authorities in Australia.
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The Australian government released its Reef 2050 Plan in March 2015 to help save the Great Barrier Reef, which includes plans for improving water quality to help corals recover from bleaching.
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And the problems emerging now — fires, cyclones, heat waves, drought, shifts in sea life and the death of the Great Barrier Reef — have been predicted in the public record for years.
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David Wachenfeld: It's important for people to remember that the Great Barrier Reef is much more than just one coral reef, which is what I think a lot of people think.
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The Great Barrier Reef alone brings in over $6 billion in tourism each year, and reefs provide a natural buffer from violent storm waves, preventing property damage and loss of life.
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Beyond the Great Barrier Reef, more than half of the world's coral reefs are at risk of degradation, while rising Adriatic sea levels have already damaged hundreds of buildings in Venice.
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It was found in a packet of frozen prawns by aquarist Laura Colton, who works at the Reef HQ Great Barrier Reef Aquarium in Townsville, located in the state of Queensland.
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Wasteland is an installation of 2,1003 orange spheres made from 120 kilograms (264 lbs) of ocean debris collected from the Great Barrier Reef, hung from the ceiling of Sydney's Customs House.
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The report from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies casts a shadow over the long-term prospects of the Great Barrier Reef against a backdrop of climate change.
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Polls had indicated that, in Saturday's national elections, voters would elect officials who promised to tackle problems like the warming seas killing the Great Barrier Reef and the drought punishing farmers.
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The Great Barrier Reef, the largest living structure on the planet, appears to be on the brink of yet another devastating mass bleaching event driven by prolonged exposure to extreme heat.
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Australia successfully demanded that a chapter detailing damage to the Great Barrier Reef be cut from a 2016 Unesco report on threatened heritage sites so that it would not affect tourism.
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The nearby Great Barrier Reef supports some 64,000 full-time employees, but shipping all that coal to India risks further harm to this environmentally sensitive area, already endangered by global warming.
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Those spots sometimes constitute the most sought-after destinations for global travel: the Great Wall of China, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru.
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"The number of new corals settling on the Great Barrier Reef declined by 89 percent following the unprecedented loss of adult corals from global warming in 2016 and 2017," he added.
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I traveled alone to Australia to begin a journey of the spirit (Aboriginal Uluru and Kata Tjuta) and appreciation of nature (Great Barrier Reef and Daintree Rainforest) in my son's memory.
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Coral Sea NORTHERN TERRITORY Great Barrier Reef Mackay AUSTRALIA QUEENSLAND SOUTH australia NEW SOUTH WALES Sydney VICTORIA 400 miles By The New York Times During a tour of the area, Mr. Williamson, whom everyone simply calls Greg, stopped at a hilltop lookout where a dozen coal ships bobbed at sea between the Great Barrier Reef — which warming waters are slowly destroying — and Lamberts Beach, where Mackay's council recently dumped extra sand and put in trees after a major cyclone.
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This area is also home to the Great Mayan Reef, a marine region that stretches for over 620 miles from Isla Contoy down to Belize (only Australia's Great Barrier Reef is larger).
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When marine scientists intentionally pumped carbon dioxide-infused seawater across a patch of Australia's Great Barrier Reef to show just how screwed coral reefs really are, what colour appeared in the water?
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Corals growing in areas of the Great Barrier Reef where fishing is banned were found to be more likely to survive bleachings, cyclones, coral diseases and the voracious effects of invasive starfish.
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The 11-day itinerary begins with five nights at Qualia, an upscale resort on Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef, where guests take a private seaplane ride to scenic Whitehaven Beach.
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"This timely report is a much needed, holistic view of the incredible economic value and opportunities provided by the Great Barrier Reef," noted US politician and environmentalist Al Gore in the report.
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"We found a large corridor of reefs that escaped the most severe damage along the eastern edge of the continental shelf in the far north of the Great Barrier Reef," Hughes said.
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A full third of the corals that make up the Great Barrier Reef were damaged in a bleaching event in 2016, according to a study published in April in the journal Nature .
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Go deeper: The future of our cloud forests is clearer Global warming is pushing the Great Barrier Reef to the brink In hot water: Global warming amplifies risk of marine heat waves
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It has given a charity A$2.2m ($1.7m) to install large, solar-powered rotating blades on parts of the Great Barrier Reef, with the intention of drawing cooler water into that reef.
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Adani's Carmichael mine and rail project has been the target of protests for nearly a decade by protesters worried about coal's impact on climate change and damage to the Great Barrier Reef.
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In a matter of months, long stretches of formations like the Great Barrier Reef—dating back past the start of human civilization and visible from space—were reduced to white bone-yards.
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An experiment carried out at One Tree Island in Australia's Great Barrier Reef offers a stark warning of the growing risks that corals face as the oceans become more acidic with time.
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The study examines what has caused ocean temperatures to spike to record highs in the Coral Sea region, which encompasses much of the Great Barrier Reef, including the hardest-hit northern reaches.
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The Great Barrier Reef, covering 348,000 square km (134,000 square miles), was listed as a World Heritage site in 1981 as the most extensive and spectacular coral reef ecosystem on the planet.
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It's 256,212 kilometers long... Located in the Coral Sea along the northeastern coast of Australia, the Great Barrier reef stretches from Cape York Peninsula in the north to Bundaberg in the south.
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According to the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve Authority, the area - a UNESCO heritage site - is the third most bio-diverse in the world after Australia's Great Barrier Reef and the Galapagos Islands.
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"If we lose the Great Barrier Reef, we will lose animals like the fang blenny and its unique venom that could be the source of the next blockbuster painkilling drug," he says.
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Thousands of people took shelter as tourist resorts along the world-famous Great Barrier Reef and mainland coastal areas were belted with wind gusts stronger than 260 km per hour (160 mph).
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Home to the third-largest barrier reef system in the world, the destination looks like a legit paradise-on-Earth, with water so clear and stunningly turquoise that renders filters completely obsolete.
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In April, scientists reported large parts of the world's corals, in areas such as the northern Great Barrier Reef, Guam, Indonesia and the Florida Keys in the Atlantic, had suffered extensive bleaching.
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Australia's new superhighway, an 1,800-km (1,118-mile) stretch of mostly coastal road alongside the Great Barrier Reef, will be supplied by renewable energy, State Minister Steven Miles said in a statement.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef face permanent destruction if the current El Nino, one of the strongest in two decades, does not ease this month, scientists said on Wednesday.
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A widely shared "obituary" in Outside magazine last week inaccurately claimed that all of the Great Barrier Reef "passed away in 219" after a brief battle with global warming and ocean acidification.
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Working with US-based NOAA, he's been globally surveying coral reefs around the world for the past two years, focusing on coral bleaching events like the one ravaging the Great Barrier Reef.
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It garners 2 million visitors a year, supports 64,000 jobs and has contributed an estimated $6.4 billion to the Australian economy on an annual basis, according to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation.
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Over the past year, Australia's majestic Great Barrier Reef has been absolutely walloped by unusually warm ocean temperatures and has suffered back-to-back bleaching events — the first time that's ever happened.
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With an astonishing lack of foresight, the Queensland government had originally proposed to dump the dredge spoil onto the Great Barrier Reef, but the decision was overturned after pushback from conservation groups.
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For now, the survival of the Great Barrier Reef, an ancient and resilient organism born half a million years ago at the end of the last ice age, hangs in the balance.
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It showed Park touching a kangaroo, diving on the Great Barrier Reef in a helmet that let her walk underwater, and splashing through the Cairns Esplanade Lagoon in a Santa Claus cap.
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On the heels of severe bleaching events in 2016 and 2017 that left half of the coral on the Great Barrier Reef dead, scientists fear this one could be a devastating blow.
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A recent aerial survey found that 93 percent of the smaller coral reefs that make up the Great Barrier Reef showed signs of bleaching, which is due to abnormally warm ocean temperatures.
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While conducting field work near Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the researcher from University of California, Berkeley saw that two species of tropical octopus had a strange habit of becoming bipedal when threatened.
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Between 2016 and 2017, half of all corals on the Great Barrier Reef died due to stress and starvation caused by back-to-back heat waves that were amplified by climate change.
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The milestone could have broad implications for "America's Great Barrier Reef," which is the third largest coral reef in the world and is found just off the coast of the Florida Keys.
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During a six-week experiment in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, scientists placed underwater speakers in reefs that had gone quiet and played the siren song of a thriving coral ecosystem.
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So far, Ningaloo has escaped the kinds of bleaching events that have devastated the Great Barrier Reef and left the coral there weak and susceptible to attack by crown of thorns starfish.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Great Barrier Reef will receive A$500 million ($379.10 million) in new funding to restore water quality and protect the coral from starfish attacks, government ministers announced on Sunday.
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Irwin, who was watched by audiences around the world in his popular television programs, died in 2006 after a stingray's serrated barb pierced his heart while filming off Australia's northern Great Barrier Reef.
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By contrast, corals in the central region of the Great Barrier Reef had a stroke of luck in the form of a "serendipitous Fiji cyclone which cooled the water down" with high rainfall.
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The survival of the Great Barrier Reef hinges on urgent moves to cut global warming because nothing else will protect coral from the coming cycle of mass bleaching events, new research has found.
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Ongoing damage Last year's disaster was the third major mass coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef on record, and scientists suspect that -- less than a year on -- a fourth is already underway.
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The technology has also previously documented the icy slopes of Mont Blanc in France, the crevices of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, and the crystal waters in Australia's Great Barrier Reef, among others.
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Mardi McNeil, geoscience researcher at the Queensland University of Technology, told Mashable scientists have known about presence of Halimeda bioherms on the Great Barrier Reef, but their sheer extent came as a shock.
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When the company that can capture nude sunbathers and the Great Barrier reef couldn't be bothered to map out their homeland, the good people of Faroe Islands started to feel a little neglected.
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Click here to view original GIFI think overly decorative cakes are silly—like cool, here's a cake that looks like the Great Barrier Reef, enjoy your edible starfish—but this Super Mario Bros.
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Click here to view original GIFEarlier this year, record warm ocean waters triggered a massive coral die off in the Great Barrier Reef, prompting a flurry of scientific research into the underlying cause.
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The Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia, a vibrant underwater ecosystem of coral and sea life that's roughly the size of Italy, so huge you can actually see it from space.
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Rescuers were called to Cid Harbour at Whitsunday Island, near the Great Barrier Reef, on Thursday afternoon and found the girl with bad leg injuries, said Tracey Eastwick, the regional ambulance operations manager.
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This work is a focus on educating people about the plight of coral reefs all over the world — not just the Great Barrier Reef — suffering from pollution, bleaching, and more serious cyclones, etc.
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A group of Australian scientists analyzed data from 1992 to 2010 and found that the average rate of recovery across the Great Barrier Reef showed a six-fold decline during that time period.
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Anna Marsden, managing director of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation said that the decision was "welcome" but said that, with the fate of the entire reef at stake, more needs to be done.
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"We welcome this decision from UNESCO which recognizes much is being done to reduce pressures on the Great Barrier Reef -- however with so much to lose, more needs to be done," she said.
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Now these same scientists, along with experts from the Queensland University of Technology and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, are using similar IVF (in vitro fertilization) techniques to robotically fertilize the endangered reef.
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More than 90 percent of the Great Barrier Reef was affected by coral bleaching just over two years ago -- the devastation was so severe that the marine scientists surveying the aerial data wept.
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At the University of Queensland, undergraduates can study marine sciences at field stations on the Great Barrier Reef in disciplines like physical and molecular science, engineering, ecology, nature conservation and global change science.
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UNESCO's World Heritage Committee last May stopped short of placing the Great Barrier Reef on an "in danger" list, but the ruling raised long-term concerns about its future due to climate change.
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Environmental activists have contested the project since it was first proposed eight years ago because of concerns about global warming and its potential impact of its port operations on the Great Barrier Reef.
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The coral reef along the Florida Keys is the last remaining coral barrier reef in the continental U.S., and Key West Mayor Teri Johnston said the city has an "obligation" to protect it.
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The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, the Western Hemisphere's longest reef system, is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site and had been included on the committee's "in danger" list of since 2009.
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Book Victoria House starting at $199 per nightOn the stunning island of Ambergris Caye (itself located just south of Mexico), the colonial-style Victoria House hotel is perched right on the barrier reef.
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A mother on a beach chair wishes for her son to visit the Great Barrier Reef before it's gone, and twins in identical bathing suits imagine life after death via 21967-D printing.
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The 1,500 mile-long (2,300 kilometer) Great Barrier Reef is the best-known example -- it has endured multiple large scale "bleaching" events caused by above average water temperatures in the last two decades.
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Deloitte Access Economics, with support from the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, calculated that the reef contributed 6.4 billion dollars to the Australian economy in 2015-16 alone and supported 64,000 full-time jobs.
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For must of us, the Great Barrier Reef is the setting for Marlin and Dory's epic adventure to find Nemo; it exists in our minds as a multi-colored, albeit animated, wildlife masterpiece.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The government agency tasked with monitoring the health of Australia's Great Barrier Reef has detected signs of heat stress in several coral regions, increasing the prospects of another major bleaching event.
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RELATED: The Great Barrier Reef is not actually dead Northern reef used to be 'pristine' While the northern parts of the reef were damaged severely by the bleaching event, others survived almost entirely intact.
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Scientists had hoped 2017 would offer the Great Barrier Reef a reprieve, but a recent study found two-thirds of the corals have been impacted by coral bleaching in a 900-mile-long zone.
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The Great Barrier Reef, which stretches over an area of about 26,270 square miles off the coast of Queensland, Australia, is an important natural habitat as well as a major driver of Australian tourism.
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The organisation is now seeking funds to help cover the cost of the license purchase, which could be beneficial in not only saving sharks, but other marine life in the Great Barrier Reef region.
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What they did: For the study, researchers in Hawaii and Australia examined how corals reproduce, or spawn, from one year to the next, by taking in situ measurements out on the Great Barrier Reef.
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SYDNEY, March 2 (Reuters) - Parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef face permanent destruction if the current El Nino, one of the strongest in two decades, does not ease this month, scientists said on Wednesday.
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During the past two years, Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef suffered its largest die-off ever recorded — with an average of 2000 percent of corals in one area declared dead, scientists said on Monday.
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"Most of the losses in 2016 have occurred in the northern, most-pristine part of the Great Barrier Reef," said Terry Hughes, director of the ARC Center at James Cook University, in a statement.
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In addition to the tiny life forms the reefs nurture, from algae to mollusks, they are also home to more than 1,600 species of fish, according to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.
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October 17, 2016 International officials call for an immediate ceasefire in Yemen, the Iraqi air force warns residents of Mosul about an upcoming battle, and the Great Barrier Reef shows signs of poor health.
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A coal mine proposed by Indian mining giant Adani, which could have devastating effects on the country's environment, including the Great Barrier Reef, formed a popular protest message on many of the student signs.
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" In a blog post, the researchers said that they released the results prior to peer review "because of the grave nature of their findings and importance of the Great Barrier Reef to all Australians.
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Maybe because it feels like half of America hates the other half of America, although its unclear which side is more impassioned, and how about that the Great Barrier Reef is dead, you guys?
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Things look bleak for the Great Barrier Reef right now, but University of Queensland marine biologist Peter Mumby said that the effective management of reef ecosystems can help to nurse them back to health.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia on Monday reached a A$39.3 million ($29.66 million) out-of-court settlement with the owners of a Chinese coal carrier that ran aground in 2010 on the Great Barrier Reef.
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The year was marked with a devastating global coral bleaching event that killed parts of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, along with record low sea ice and unusually high temperatures in the Arctic.
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The Great Barrier Reef experienced its worst coral bleaching on record this year, with one scientific study estimating up to 93 percent of the reef shows signs of bleaching, largely due to climate change.
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UNESCO's World Heritage Committee stopped short of placing the Great Barrier Reef on an "in danger" list last May but asked the Australian government for an update on its progress in safeguarding the reef.
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Calling a destination "a place you need to see before you die" sounds like a hyperbolic trope for travel listicles, but the phrase isn't far off when it comes to Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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The new funding is part of an ambitious conservation plan that will see the Australian government partner with the Great Barrier Reef Foundation to improve and monitor the long-term health of the reef.
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Last June, scientists announced that the Bramble Cay melomys, a small rodent native to the Great Barrier Reef, has likely gone extinct as sea-level rise had inundated the small island it called home.
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Here's a shot of bleached staghorn coral at Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef, taken February 2016: Bleaching doesn't kill the coral right away; if temperatures drop again, the zooxanthelle will come back.
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But after ocean temperatures surged in 2016 around the Great Barrier Reef, causing severe damage, researchers found that the corals that survived were more resistant to another period of extreme warmth the following year.
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Last Thursday, scientists reported warm waters have bleached large portions of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, marking the third time in five years that global warming has threatened one of the world's most important ecosystems.
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Mukan Resort, Sian Ka'an Biosphere, Quintana Roo On Mexico's southern Caribbean coast, the Sian Ka'an Biosphere, a Unesco World Heritage Site, protects tropical forests, mangrove channels, lagoons and part of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.
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In 2016 and 2017, marine heat waves caused by climate change resulted in mass bleaching, which killed about half of the corals on the Great Barrier Reef, along with many others around the world.
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The data was released just before the Australian government issued a report to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or Unesco, which has proclaimed the Great Barrier Reef a World Heritage Site.
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Extending nearly 1,000 km (620 miles) from the northern tip of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula toward the Bay Islands in northern Honduras, the Mesoamerican Reef is second in size only to Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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When considered individually, the main journalistic components of today's article on the troubling state of Australia's Great Barrier Reef are nothing new — a focus on the climate, an international dateline ("SYDNEY, Australia"), arresting visuals.
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Every summer, somewhere in the tropical north, a cyclone generates enough rain to inundate the low-lying suburbs of coastal towns, decimate banana crops and wash topsoil and fertilizers onto the Great Barrier Reef.
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In February, the government of Australia recognized the first mammal to go extinct due to climate change: the Bramble Cay melomys, a small rodent that lived on an island in the Great Barrier Reef.
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The group conducted its research over 16 days in July 2014, plying small boats around the Howick Group of islands in the north Great Barrier Reef — "an absolutely magical place," according to Dr. Jensen.
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