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Global warming
What keeps climate scientists like me awake at night - and why the next 10 years are so critical
The Climate Council says Australia needs to triple its ambition to cut carbon emissions by 2030. Here’s why.
- by Lesley Hughes
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Artists create awe and wonder of the seaweed forests on Australia’s ‘other’ big reef
Australia’s first seaweed festival, the Seaweed Forests Festival in Manly, highlights the risks facing seaweed from ocean warming along the Great Southern Reef.
- by Julie Power
‘Black water’: The three Australian sites that are ground zero for climate change
Over the past 10 years, each Australia’s three most important marine sites has seen a catastrophe. And recent wild weather signals history repeating.
- by Emma Young
Reef on path to destruction and ‘clever science can’t fix it’
Catastrophic bleaching events are recurring faster than corals can recover and experts say expensive reef restoration projects aren’t the answer.
- by Mike Foley
Don’t give up on Great Barrier Reef yet, Qld tourism industry says
The Queensland Tourism Industry Council has renewed calls for governments to address climate change to protect the Great Barrier Reef, which faces destruction.
- by Stuart Layt
Barrier Reef doomed as up to 99% of coral at risk, report finds
Unless immediate “transformative action” is taken to drastically reduce global warming, Australia is set for the destruction of its reef and more storms and floods, the Australian Academy of Science says.
- by Nick O'Malley and Mike Foley
Barrier Reef took a ‘hammering’ but most replanted corals are surviving
About 25,000 new corals have been replanted on five reefs in the Great Barrier Reef network, with 85 per cent of them now growing.
- by Tony Moore
Small fish have big impact on marine populations, research finds
Research has used genetic analysis to confirm that minimum size limits work to protect fish populations, despite larger fish laying more eggs.
- by Stuart Layt
Australian scientists sound alarm on ecosystem collapse
Eminent scientists, from 29 universities and organisations, say they have observed signs of Australian ecosystem decline and collapse all over the country.
- by Miki Perkins
Brutal heat in Australia by 2040 will change the shape of summer sport
As the world heats, athletes and crowds in Australia are going to be hit more often with dangerous temperatures, prompting calls for changes to the way we play.
- by Nick O'Malley
Sacked Queensland professor scores first win in High Court appeal
Dr Peter Ridd was the head of the physics department at James Cook University was he was dismissed in 2018.
- by Toby Crockford