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'Due diligence' on $444m Great Barrier Reef grant was for separate project Foundation’s timeline appears to contradict Josh Frydenberg’s assurance that ‘extensive due diligence’ took place before grant

Posted by GreenDog on Monday, 20 August 2018 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Due diligence the government says it conducted before announcing a $443.8m grant to a not-for-profit group was actually conducted as part of an application for funding for a separate project, the Great Barrier ReefFoundation says. The environment and energy minister, Josh Frydenberg, says...

Great Barrier Reef Gets $379M Boost After Coral Dies Off

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 08 May 2018 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

By Jason Scott April 28, 2018, 8:51 PM MDT From Largest living structure is under siege from climate change Conservationists say planned coal mine will exacerbate damage. The Great Barrier Reef is being given a A$500 million ($379 million) boost by Australia in the battle to...

As Coral Bleaching Goes Global, Scientists Fear Worst Is Yet to Come

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 08 June 2016 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

The longest and most widespread coral bleaching event on record has reached reefs near at least 38 countries and island groups, according to the latest report from NOAA's Coral Reef Watch and other research. Parts of many coral reefs have died, becoming ghostly underwater graveyards. They ...

Coral reefs are dying – just when we need them most

Posted by Virginia on Wednesday, 27 April 2016 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Coral reefs around the world are rapidly dying – just when humans need their protective services the most. The plight of the world's reefs has become all too clear this month with news from the Australia that the 30 to 50 percent of the Great Barrier Reef is already dead, and the realizati...

Parrotfish Could Be Key to Saving Caribbean Coral Reefs

Posted by tvernile on Friday, 04 July 2014 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

-Kiribati, a Pacific island nation, recently purchased land on the Fijian island Vanua Levu in preparation for climate change. The president doesn’t expect to move everyone there, “but if it became absolutely necessary, yes, we could do it," he said. The Guardian - The International...

Coral Reef Management and Your Future

Posted by Tiny on Monday, 16 December 2013 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoECRS) at James Cook University are engaging social science to help solve some of the world’s biggest environmental problems. Dr Christina Hicks, an interdisciplinary social science fellow at the ARC CoECRS, holds a joint positi...

The Largest Event on Earth

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 20 April 2013 in General Environment

If you have any sense of wonder or faith in humanity, you would have to agree that Earth Day is an extraordinary event. It combines the functions of educator, movement builder and the largest public service project in the world. More than one billion people from almost ev...

Sunshade Cover to Save Great Barrier Reefs

Posted by acox on Wednesday, 26 September 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Australian scientists have proposed covering endangered coral reefs with cloth to give them shade as a "last resort" to protect the Great Barrier Reef. The cloths would be anchored with ropes and float on the water surface to protect corals from sunlight, reducing heat stress which leads ...