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UN: 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, sounding the alarm that without “ambitious, rapid and sustained” climate action the world’s largest coral reef is in peril

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United Nations recommends Great Barrier Reef be added to World Heritage 'in danger' list

A UN delegation again recommends Australia's Great Barrier Reef be added to the World Heritage 'in danger' list, urging immediate and urgent action to protect it.

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Australia falls short in Great Barrier Reef efforts: experts

Paris (AFP) - Despite warnings, Australia's efforts to save the Great Barrier Reef still fall short of protecting the world's largest coral reef system from pollution and climate change, experts said Monday.

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Great Barrier Reef should be placed on world heritage ‘in danger’ list, UN-backed report says

Experts from Unesco and IUCN find climate change threatens reef’s values and work to improve water quality is too slow

The Guardian - AU

Record heat over Great Barrier Reef raises fears of second summer of coral bleaching

‘This does not bode well,’ reef scientist says, as highest November temperatures reached since 1985

The Guardian - AU

Scientists discover five new species of black corals living thousands of feet below the ocean surface near the Great Barrier Reef

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Native species thrive on Curtis Island after removal of feral animals

While striking to see roaming the streets, wild horses are part of a feral animal problem on this Great Barrier Reef island and rangers say their removal has had incredible impacts on native wildlife.

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Scientists try to bolster Great Barrier Reef in warmer world

Below the turquoise waters off the coast of Australia is one of the world’s natural wonders, an underwater rainbow jungle teeming with life that scientists say is showing some of the clearest signs yet of climate change

The Independent UK

Coral seeding on floating laboratory has Great Barrier Reef scientists, Woppaburra people hopeful

A floating laboratory off Konomie-North Keppel Island is allowing ecologists to get baby coral onto the reef faster than before, increasing their chances of survival.

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‘A beautiful milestone’: coral grown in Great Barrier Reef nursery spawns for first time

Researchers hope corals grown from fragments that had survived bleaching will tolerate future marine heatwaves

The Guardian - AU

Divers delve deep to draw the Museum of Underwater Art on the Great Barrier Reef

They say the best way to take up a new hobby is to jump in the deep end, and a group of divers in north Queensland has done just that — delving 16 metres below the waves to draw under water.

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At least 700,000 years ago, the world's largest sand island emerged as the barrier that helped the Great Barrier Reef form

Scientists had always been puzzled why the Great Barrier Reef formed long after Australia had conditions suitable for reef growth. It turns out the answer might be K'gari (Fraser Island).

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Ancient sand reveals age of K'gari (Fraser Island) and how it helped form Great Barrier Reef

Ancient sand reveals the age of K'gari and how the world's largest sand island — along with the Great Barrier Reef — may have been shaped by a dramatic shift in global climate.

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Fraser Island’s formation over 1m years ago was critical to development of Great Barrier Reef, study reveals

Scientists say the world’s largest sand island helped create clearer water conditions for reef growth

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Researchers believe K'gari shaped reef

Scientists believe K'gari formed between 0.7 and 1.2 million years ago and its formation allowed the development of the southern and central Great Barrier Reef.

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Coal projects in Great Barrier Reef catchments approved without environmental impact statements

Environmental groups call on Queensland government to end exemptions, with six mining ventures already given green light

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Cane farmers on Great Barrier Reef adopt irrigation automation to fix rising groundwater, prevent run off

These cane growers hope automated irrigation can slow decades of rising groundwater and prevent runoff from flowing onto the Great Barrier Reef.

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Indigenous women rangers of the Great Barrier Reef make the finals of Prince William's Earthshot Prize Awards

Larissa Hale — who runs a trailblazing network of Indigenous women rangers in Queensland — has been announced as the only Australian finalist in Prince William's Earthshot Prize, which aims to seek out cutting-edge solutions to save the planet.

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World's oldest known manta ray celebrates more than 40 years on Great Barrier Reef

This melanistic ray with its distinct black belly still leaves divers in awe four decades after it was first sighted.

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Autonomous boats the future of Great Barrier Reef research as diving expeditions wind back

The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) has revealed plans to wind back diving expeditions within the next decade, with autonomous boats to patrol the reef instead.

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Burnett Heads $250 million luxury marina development to transform fishing village

Developers hope a small town at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef will become a Whitsundays look-alike, but not everyone is happy and there are concerns for the local turtle population.

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Agnes Water and 1770 accommodation providers booked out, as tourists flock for school holidays

Pristine coastline along the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef is drawing in tourists from around the world — and accommodation providers are cashing in.

The Independent UK

Australia travel guide: Everything you need to know before you go

Cooler than cool cities like Sydney and Melbourne, sublime surfing beaches, the Great Barrier Reef, the Red Centre and the Outback – Australia’s diverse charms make for a trip like no other

Daily Mirror

What happened to Steve Irwin's children 16 years after his tragic death?

Zookeeper and national treasure Steve Irwin tragically died 16 years ago after he was attacked by a stingray while filming a documentary on Australia's Great Barrier Reef

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Mouse plague eradicated on North West Island in the southern Great Barrier Reef

An island in the Great Barrier Reef was facing an ecological crisis as mice took over. But plummeting seabird numbers have levelled out after authorities took action.

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