When the usual way of doing things is flipped around, students can benefit.
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“Flipped classrooms” aren’t yet common around Africa, but a partial flip that marries technology and collaboration has real potential.
Parts of the Great Barrier Reef’s outer reefs can form a natural barrier to coastal recession, thus protecting urban centres.
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Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef could lead to increased vulnerability of Queensland coastal cities and towns, and not only through its impacts on the tourism industry.
Hanan Almahasheer
Mangroves are superheroes on both land and sea, storing carbon and providing protection for coasts.
Monstrous, or just misunderstood?
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People are more likely to support conservation for cute rather than creepy-looking animals.
A blue whale surfaces.
Joy Tripovich
Songs of marine animals can help us discover new populations.
Microplastics can carry other pollutants.
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Up to 236,000 tonnes of microplastic enter our oceans each year.
Cities are bright underwater too.
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Light pollution is changing the day-night cycle of some fish, dramatically affecting their feeding behaviour.
The idea is to come up with better alternatives to this.
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Japan’s fleet is on its way to the Southern Ocean for more “scientific” whaling. But a new resolution pointing out the importance of whale poo could help remove Japan’s rationale for lethal research.
A researcher taking a photo-identification shot of a whale shark.
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How you tell one whale shark from another? Spots and stripes.
Kelps form Australia’s neglected Great Southern Reef.
John Turnbull
Cool-water kelp forests are being eaten by tropical species moving south on warming waters.
Right whales have been shown to be affected by noise pollution.
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The increasing use of the sea for human activities has resulted in a dramatic rise in noise levels.
Hammerheads are the species most caught in NSW’s shark nets.
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New South Wales wants to extend its shark net program after a spate of attacks in the north of state.
Seagrass meadows are often overlooked by the public but vital to the ocean ecosystem.
Ben Jones
Seagrass is more than just a bit of sea greenery.
Australia’s oceans are home to extraordinary marine life.
Australia has the third largest marine jurisdiction in the world, a vast ocean territory that contains important natural and biological resources. And it needs protecting.
The second-noisiest animal in the ocean, the snapping shrimp.
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The oceans are filled with sounds produced by animals. However, a recent study shows that ocean sounds are diminishing due to nutrient pollution and ocean acidification.
We’ve filled our oceans with concrete.
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We’ve building in the sea for centuries, and it’s putting our oceans out of balance.
Australia’s oceans are feeding grounds for many wildlife species, including seabirds.
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More of Australia’s oceans should be placed under high protection, according to the latest marine reserves review.
Can undersea oil rigs become homes?
US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
In coming decades many oil and gas platforms will have to be retired. Rather than being dismantled, they could be given a new lease of life as artificial reefs, helping industry and the environment.
A bloom of phytoplankton in the Barents Sea: the milky blue colour strongly suggests it contains coccolithopores.
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Tiny organisms change ocean acidity to benefit themselves.
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‘Smell-free seas’ would be a disaster for marine life.