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Elderly tourist left behind by cruise ship found dead on Lizard Island

October 29, 2025 8:26 pm

Hours later, when the crew realised she was missing, the vessel turned back, triggering a large-scale search involving helicopters, local police, and rescue teams. Her body was discovered the next morning.

Ocean temperatures in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef now hottest in 400 years: What a new study says

August 11, 2024 12:44 pm

Anthropogenic climate change is the behind the rising sea temperatures, which, are damaging the Great Barrier Reef. Here is why this matters.

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Great Barrier Reef waters were hottest in 400 years over the past decade: Study

August 07, 2024 9:41 pm

During that time, between 2016 and 2024, the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef ecosystem and one of the most biodiverse, suffered mass coral bleaching events.

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Scientists freeze Great Barrier Reef coral in world-first trial

December 20, 2022 11:39 am

Cryogenically frozen coral can be stored and later reintroduced to the wild but the current process requires sophisticated equipment including lasers.

The Great Barrier Reef is 'in danger': Australia pushes back

December 01, 2022 8:50 pm

A joint report by the IUCN and UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre has recommended that the Great Barrier Reef “be inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger”, something Australia is opposing. We explain why.

UN panel recommends Great Barrier Reef be put on 'in danger' list

November 29, 2022 8:53 am

Frequent bleaching events are threatening the reef, including four over the last seven years and the first during a La Nina phenomenon, which typically brings cooler temperatures, this year.

Using citizen science and artificial intelligence to help conserve the Great Barrier Reef

September 08, 2022 11:04 am

Researchers are leveraging citizen science and artificial intelligence to help Great Barrier Reef conservation efforts.

Great Barrier Reef suffers another mass bleaching event: What will it take for coral to survive?

March 31, 2022 2:17 pm

This is the first time the reef has bleached under the cooling conditions of the natural La Nina weather pattern, which shows just how strong the long-term warming trend of climate change is. Despite the cooling conditions, 2021 was one of the hottest years on record.