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  1. Mar 22

    . forgot to mention new opportunities for increasing inflows of sediment, nutrient pollution, herbicides and pesticides onto the struggling .

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  2. Mar 23

    Coral scientist claims a 6th mass bleaching is unfolding across the . ’s World Heritage Centre began a monitoring mission to assess if the reef should be added to the World Heritage In Danger list.

  3. 9 hours ago

    Have you visited the Great Barrier Reef ? or is it on your bucket list? We love this project , to find out more on how they plan to use the world of NFT's to help, you can read the article here

  4. Mar 17

    Finally saw my first unbleached coral today, after a week of transects. This being my first time on the barrier reef, if I didn’t know I would think this is what corals normally look like (next photos). 🥲 – At One Tree Island

  5. The 's World Heritage status is at major risk due to severe bleaching a poor condition.

  6. Mar 18

    It takes about 7 or 8 days of flying, in a small plane or helicopter, to assess coral bleaching throughout the . Afterwards, the sense of grief is overwhelming. (Photo from 2016).

  7. Feb 13
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  10. Making a special visit to Yarrabah to announce $65.6 million to tackle water pollution on our .

  11. Mar 23

    .’s most ratio-ed tweet ever? The latest in an ongoing series of nonsensical “good-news” stories about the . No mention of anthropogenic heating or greenhouse gas emissions, or the current mass coral bleaching - the first during La Niña conditions.

  12. 15 hours ago

    As the bleaches again, I wrote something about hope. The locked-in climate damage is not where our love of the Reef ends. It is the middle of our story. It is the pause, as the tide turns. What my great-grandmother would call ‘the Nauwa.’

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  13. "The is dangerously close to another mass bleaching event, which would make it a catastrophic 4th such event in 6 years. "Unless we cut emissions deeply this decade the Reef will only get worse, says Climate Councillor Prof Lesley Hughes

  14. Mar 19

    “Unless we deal with climate change, everything else is just shuffling the deck chairs,” A month later, another coral mass bleaching is occurring on the , the 4th since 2016.

  15. 15 hours ago

    What must the Australian government do to save our from rising ocean temperatures? Have a listen below as explains 👇

  16. Mar 17

    Corals on the are not supposed to bleach in cooler La Nina summers. 2022 is a first, thanks to anthropogenic heating. It's been a mere 24 years since the first 1998 mass bleaching occurred during an El Nino heatwave.

  17. 14 hours ago

    Previous bouts of mass coral bleaching have usually straddled more than one of the internal boundaries within the Marine Park - but mass bleaching has NEVER been defined by arbitrary Park boundaries. Not to mention the Torres Strait region north of the Park.

  18. Mar 23

    Good news - Arthur and Florence Bay, Magnetic Island, almost no bleached corals. Big contrast to Geoffrey Bay yesterday, 3km away, 60% bleached. In water surveys vital to understand bleaching impacts.

  19. 7 hours ago

    Tackling water pollution on the is a great idea. Now, what about all those new coal mine approvals……..

  20. Mar 21
  21. Mar 19

    Mass coral bleaching due to anthropogenic heating strikes even the most remote reefs. This is a fringing reef in Princess Charlotte Bay, on the Far Northern , taken from a helicopter at 150m elevation in 2016. Reefs like this one lost >90% of their corals.

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