Last Thursday the Queensland Parliament passed the Great Barrier Reef Protection Amendment Bill. The new law targets reducing the run-off of nutrients, pesticides and sediment from farming land onto the Great Barrier Reef.
Marine life is suffering the consequences of global warming in many different ways. Not only is it threatened by the changing environment, loss of habitat, species migration as a response to the changing habitat, but it seems warmer waters also changes some fishes behavior, making them easy prey.
The Great Barrier Reef is among the finalists for the title of “New 7 Wonders of Nature” as per last weeks announcement in Zurich.
For the sake of curiosity, David Booth, from the University of Queensland, Australia, decided to measure the rate of oxygen consumption in newly hatched turtles as they swim to safety. Hatchlings on the Great Barrier Reef’s coral cays are in a high risk zone. The dash from the nesting area to the water is filled [...]
A devastating coral bleaching episode is predicted to occur in the Coral Sea between now and February. If the bleaching has the effects that NOAA is predicting, marine life in the surrounding areas will be severely damaged. Reports from NOAA say that the bleaching will occur in parts of the Coral Sea, adjacent to Australia’s [...]
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