Risky Business For Fish In Oil-Polluted Reef Waters
Coral reef fish are more likely to engage in risky behaviour and be unable to identify predators if they swim ...
Tag: Coral bleaching
World’s Northernmost Coral Reef In Japan Bleached
Bleaching has damaged the world's northernmost coral reef in Japan, a researcher said Tuesday, the latest example of a global ...
UNESCO Keeps Great Barrier Reef Off ‘in Danger’ List
UNESCO said Thursday its World Heritage Committee (WHC) had decided not to place the Great Barrier Reef on its list ...
Great Barrier Reef A $42 Billion Asset ‘too Big To Fail’
Australia's under-pressure Great Barrier Reef is an asset worth Aus$56 billion (US$42 billion) and as an ecosystem and economic driver ...
Global Coral Bleaching May Be Ending, US Agency Says
Coral reef bleaching may be easing after three years of high ocean temperatures, the longest such period since the 1980s, ...
Chemicals Are Found In the Blood of Turtles From Great Barrier Reef
Chemicals from human cosmetics and drugs have been found in the blood of turtles living in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. ...
Great Barrier Reef Can No Longer Be Saved
The Great Barrier Reef can no longer be saved in its present form and is damaged beyond repair, scientists have ...
Great Barrier Reef Bleaching Worse Than First Thought
Coral bleaching on Australia's Great Barrier Reef is worse than first thought and the impact will accelerate unless global greenhouse ...
Vinegar Offers Hope In Barrier Reef Starfish Battle
Coral-munching crown-of-thorns starfish can be safely killed by common household vinegar, scientists revealed Thursday in a discovery that offers hope ...
Reef Damage Could Cost Australia A Million Tourists
Mass coral bleaching on Australia's Great Barrier Reef could cost the region more than a million tourists a year and ...
Great Barrier Reef: Two-Thirds Damaged In ‘unprecedented’ Bleaching
Unprecedented coral bleaching in consecutive years has damaged two-thirds of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, aerial surveys have shown. The bleaching ...
‘Zero Recovery’ For Corals In Back-To-Back Australia Bleaching
Coral bleached for two consecutive years at Australia's Great Barrier Reef has "zero prospect" of recovery, scientists warned Monday, as ...
Gene Sleuths Open Line of Attack On Coral-Killing Starfish
The beast goes by the Latin monicker of Acanthaster planci, but it is known to us as the crown-of-thorns -- ...
Great Barrier Reef May Never Recover From Bleaching
Australia's Great Barrier Reef may never recover from last year's warming-driven coral bleaching, said a study Wednesday that called for ...
Australia Sees Second Year of Barrier Reef Bleaching
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is experiencing an unprecedented second straight year of mass coral bleaching, scientists said Friday, warning many ...
Great Barrier Reef At Risk of WORST-EVER Coral Bleaching This Year
The Great Barrier Reef could be struck by its worst-ever blast of coral bleaching as early as this year, experts ...