Great Barrier Reef News
18/03/2009 21:47
2004 article that is still of relevance: Doomed by 2050
Great Barrier Reef doomed by 2050, study
Monday, 23 February 2004 Neil Sands
ABC/AFP
A new report predicts global warming will kill most of the Great Barrier Reef within 50 years (Image: NASA)
The brightly-coloured corals that make Australia's Great Barrier Reef will be largely dead by 2050...
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17/03/2009 09:51
A summer of Hard Knocks hits the great barrier reef
BY LOUIS ANDREWS
17/03/2009 1:00:00 AM
The Great Barrier Reef is reeling from shocking weather damage that might take two decades to heal.
Sunburn in a hot December, flooding rains in January and February and a tropical cyclone combined in what the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority is...
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17/03/2009 09:40
Largest fishing no zone declared.
Largest No-Fishing Zone Declared in Great Barrier ReefJennifer Hile
National Geographic Channel
June 15, 2004
The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living organism on the planet, a colossal colony of limestone-secreting coral polyps stretching 1,430 miles (2,300 kilometers) off Australia's...
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17/03/2009 09:24
Sensors watch Barrier reef coral
By Jake Krausmann
Cairns, Australia
The sensors can inform scientists about changes in the coral
With the ecology of coral reefs around the globe increasingly under pressure, scientists on Australia's Great Barrier Reef are establishing a network of sensors to better understand this...
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16/03/2009 13:56
Panel Warns on Great Barrier Reef
Panel warns on Great Barrier Reef
Australia's famous Great Barrier Reef could be dead within decades because of the effects of global warming, according to a leaked report.
The report, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), warns that the reef's coral could be bleached...