Tagged with Great Barrier Reef

Study finds 30 years of management approaches do not adequately address climate change threats to the Great Barrier Reef.

A tongue-in-cheek editorial about the death of the Great Barrier Reef undermined efforts to build action on climate change and amplified conflict a new study has found.

Toxic chemicals are accumulating in Great Barrier Reef turtles and fish species popular with consumers, according to a new report by Griffith University and the World Wide Fund for Nature Australia.

Griffith researchers have demonstrated that bank and gully erosion contributes more than 90 per cent of sediment loads to the GBR in many catchments.

Great Barrier Reef fish communities feel the affect of 2016 ocean heat wave.

"It's life-changing work that they're doing."

The natural wonder will need more than a modest cash injection to avail itself of its woes.