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Most Great Barrier Reef coral studied this year was bleached

More than 90% of Great Barrier Reef coral surveyed this year was bleached in the fourth such mass event in seven years in the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem, Australian government scientists said. Bleaching is caused by global warming but this ...

11 May 2022 at 08:55

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Australia to protect Great Barrier Reef by banning coal mine

Australia’s new government has announced it plans to prevent development of a coal mine due to the potential impact on the nearby Great Barrier Reef. Environment minister Tanya Plibersek said she intends to deny approval for the Central Queensland ...

04 Aug 2022 at 12:31

Commons to debate ‘visionary’ nature recovery law amid support ‘groundswell’

A record-breaking ocean rower has unveiled a draft law to combat species extinction, as she voiced fears over the “devastation” caused to the Great Barrier Reef. Liberal Democrat MP Roz Savage will revive the Climate and Nature Bill, which she ...

10 Oct 2024 at 06:00

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Great Barrier Reef ‘should be on heritage danger list’

A United Nations-backed mission is recommending that the Great Barrier Reef be added to the list of endangered World Heritage sites. The body says that without “ambitious, rapid and sustained” climate action, the world’s largest coral reef is ...

28 Nov 2022 at 16:42

Great Barrier Reef threatened by unprecedented sea heat extremes, say scientists

Recent heat extremes in the seas around Australia’s Great Barrier Reef are “unprecedented” in the past 400 years – and driven by climate change, scientists have said. Researchers examining high sea temperatures in the Coral Sea where the ...

07 Aug 2024 at 16:00

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‘No chance of survivors’ after Australian army helicopter crashed off coast

The Australian army helicopter that crashed on Friday during a multinational exercise hit the water with a “catastrophic impact” and there is no chance its four crew members survived, officials have said. Australia’s fleet of more than ...

31 Jul 2023 at 08:12

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Australia argues against ‘endangered’ Great Barrier Reef status

Australia’s environment minister has said her government will lobby against Unesco adding the Great Barrier Reef to a list of endangered World Heritage sites, arguing that criticisms of government inaction on climate change are ...

29 Nov 2022 at 08:38

Two British tourists drown while swimming at beach near Great Barrier Reef

Two British tourists have drowned while swimming at a beach near the Great Barrier Reef. A 17-year-old boy and a 46-year-old man entered the water without lifeguards in the town of Seventeen Seventy, in Queensland, Australia ...

14 Apr 2025 at 13:27

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Great Barrier Reef hit by widespread coral bleaching

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is suffering widespread and severe coral bleaching due to high ocean temperatures two years after a mass bleaching event, a government agency said on Friday. The report by the Great Barrier ...

18 Mar 2022 at 11:55

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Great Barrier Reef records largest annual coral loss in 39 years

The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades of record-keeping, Australian authorities say. But due to increasing coral cover since 2017, the ...

07 Aug 2025 at 10:27

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