Researchers found 16% of coral species have not been seen for many years. This finding is alarming, because local extinctions suggest global extinctions may be looming.
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The federal government’s new funding aims to spread the net wide in investigating possible ways to protect the Great Barrier Reef’s corals. Winning this battle will require a wide range of weapons.
A new study identifies dozens of individual reefs on the Great Barrier Reef that are especially important for coral larvae dispersal and which could help the entire ecosystem bounce back.
New research has uncovered a whole new way to combat the devastating crown-of-thorns starfish, by decoding the pheromones that they use to communicate.
The Great Barrier Reef is in trouble, and the upcoming election is our last chance to lock in plans to save it.
Banning fishing helps fish, but it also helps reef recover from cyclones, disease, and coral bleaching.
To fix pollution on the Great Barrier Reef, some farming practices will have to change.
The Great Barrier Reef might get all the attention, but what about our western coral reefs? Warmer waters and human impacts mean these reefs are in trouble.
Despite 15 years of concerted action by the Australian and Queensland governments the health of the reef is not improving and in fact may be continuing to deteriorate.
Crown-of-thorns starfish are one of the biggest threats to the Great Barrier Reef. Since 1985, the Great Barrier Reef has lost half its coral cover, with almost half of this coral loss due to the crown-of-thorns…
Reef historian Iain McCalman, in Sydney, and reef scientist Stephen Palumbi, in California, are monitoring reef degradation from opposite sides of the planet. They compared notes. Iain McCalman: A recent…
On Monday, the Coalition announced its plan for the Great Barrier Reef, including a A$40m trust-fund to target threats to the Reef such as Crown of Thorns starfish and runoff from agriculture. The promises…
The Great Barrier Reef has lost half its coral cover in the last 27 years, and it could halve again by 2022 say researchers from the Australian Institute of Marine Science. A study published today in the…
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Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Chair professor, The University of Queensland
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Professorial Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
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Professor, Conservation Planning, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
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PhD Researcher, Marine Conservation Finance, James Cook University
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Professor, James Cook University
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Professorial Research Fellow, Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Marine Biology, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Richard Pearson is a Friend of The Conversation.
Emeritus Professor, College of Marine & Environmental Sciences, James Cook University
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Professor in Marine Sciences, Stanford University
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Principal Research Scientist for the 'A Healthy and Resilient Great Barrier Reef' program, Australian Institute of Marine Science
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Senior Lecturer in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Emeritus Professor Water Science, Monash University
