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Investigators board Coral Adventurer cruise ship after passenger dies on remote Australian island

Maritime authority officers investigating the death of Suzanne Rees, 80, board the ill-fated ship on its return to Cairns

The Guardian - AU

Ship set to return after elderly woman dies on cruise

A full investigation is set to be launched as a cruise ship returns to port after an 80-year-old passenger died alone while hiking on a remote tropical island.

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Passengers on ill-fated cruise ship flown home after Lizard Island death of 80-year-old

The Coral Adventurer will return to Cairns, as investigations into Suzanne Rees’ death continue

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A luxury cruise ship stopped at a remote Australian island. Suzanne Rees was left behind and died alone

Five hours after the Coral Adventurer left Lizard Island without the 80-year-old, it turned back. Her body was found the next day, and her family want answers

The Guardian - AU

Aussie Grandmother, 80, Found Dead on Remote Island After Being 'Left Behind' by Cruise Ship — What Went Wrong?

An 80-year-old Australian woman was found dead on Lizard Island after a cruise ship left without her, sparking investigations into safety protocols.

International Business Times UK

Pictured: Australian grandmother, 80, found dead on remote island after being left behind by cruise ship

Suzanne Rees is being remembered as a keen bushwalker and gardener following her death on Lizard Island

Evening Standard

Daughter blames cruise operator after 80-year-old found dead on remote Australian island

Katherine Rees says family ‘shocked and saddened’ that ship left Lizard Island ‘without my mum, Suzanne’

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Cruise passenger, 80, found dead after being abandoned on Great Barrier Reef island

An 80-year-old cruise passenger has been found dead on a Great Barrier Reef island after being accidentally left behind by the ship's crew

The Independent UK

Grieving daughter of cruise ship passenger left behind on remote Australian island says ‘there was a failure of care’

Suzanne Rees, 80, was found dead on Lizard Island a day after her cruise ship the Coral Adventurer left without her

The Guardian - AU

Elderly woman found dead on Australian island after being left by cruise ship

Investigations are underway following the discovery of the 80-year-old's body on Lizard Island on Sunday.

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Questions grow over death of elderly woman left behind on £40k cruise to deserted island

The woman, aged in her eighties, is said to have been hiking a steep trail on Lizard Island but did not return to the cruise ship

The Independent UK

Woman in her 80s found dead on Great Barrier Reef’s Lizard Island after failing to return to cruise ship

Police say death was ‘sudden and non-suspicious’ after search and rescue operation launched

The Guardian - AU

Lizard Island coral death reaches 92 per cent after 2024 bleaching event, study finds

Last year’s bleaching was part of a global marine heatwave that hit tropical reefs across the planet

The Independent UK

Amid a tropical paradise known as ‘Lizard Island,’ researchers are cracking open evolution’s black box – scientist at work

Every morning in Miami, our fieldwork begins the same way. Fresh Cuban coffee and pastelitos – delicious Latin American pastries – fuel our team for another day of evolutionary detective work. Here we’re tracking evolution in real time, measuring natural selection as it happens in a community of Caribbean lizards.

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The Guardian - AU

‘Graveyard of corals’ found after extreme heat and cyclones hit northern Great Barrier Reef

Marine scientists say one area around Cooktown and Lizard Island had lost more than a third of its live hard coral after bleaching event

The Conversation

New drone imagery reveals 97% of coral dead at a Lizard Island reef after last summer’s mass bleaching

Last summer, the Great Barrier Reef suffered its worst mass coral bleaching event. Our new data show the devastating damage the bleaching caused to a reef at Lizard Island – a finding that does not bode well for the rest of the natural wonder.

The Guardian - AU

‘Most of it was dead’: scientists discover one of Great Barrier Reef’s worst coral bleaching events

Analysis of high-resolution drone imagery concludes 97% of corals died at a Lizard Island reef between March and June this year

International Business Times

Australia's Great Barrier Reef Hit By Record Bleaching

Australia's spectacular Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its worst bleaching event on record, the country's reef authority reported on Wednesday.

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Great Barrier Reef suffering ‘one of the most severe’ coral bleaching events on record

Australia’s famed Great Barrier Reef is suffering one of the most severe coral bleaching events on record, leaving scientists fearful for its survival as the impact of climate change worsens.

International Business Times

Australia's Great Barrier Reef Struggles To Survive

Australia's famed Great Barrier Reef is suffering one of the most severe coral bleaching events on record, leaving scientists fearful for its survival as the impact of climate change worsens.

The Guardian - AU

Bleaching fears along 1,000km stretch of the Great Barrier Reef

Scientists are investigating reports of dying coral from Lizard Island in the north to Heron Island in the south

The Guardian - AU

Labor ‘not giving up’ on republic push – as it happened

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From humble beginnings, tiny Lizard Island is a major player on the global research stage

It has been 50 years since a couple of tents were the humble beginnings of what's become an internationally renowned research station on one of Australia's most remote tropical, tiny islands in the Coral Sea.

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Record coral cover doesn't necessarily mean the Great Barrier Reef is in good health (despite what you may have heard)

In what seems like excellent news, coral cover in parts of the Great Barrier Reef is at a record high, according to new data from the Australian Institute of Marine Science. But this doesn’t necessarily mean our beloved reef is in good health.

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