by faster | Mar 25, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: March 25, 2020 SNIP: The Great Barrier Reef has experienced a third mass coral bleaching event in five years, according to the scientist carrying out aerial surveys over hundreds of individual reefs. With three days of a nine-day survey to...
by faster | Aug 30, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: CBS News DATE: August 30, 2019 SNIP: The government agency that manages Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has downgraded its outlook for the corals’ condition from “poor” to “very poor” due to warming oceans. The Great Barrier...
by faster | Feb 20, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: February 20, 2019 SNIP: The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has approved the dumping of more than 1m tonnes of dredge spoil near the reef, using a loophole in federal laws that were supposed to protect the marine park. Acting on...