New Great Barrier Reef Video Series By Peter Ridd And True Arrow Events
ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE FACEBOOK PAGE OF DR PETER RIDD Just completed 4 short videos on the reef in front of a brilliant […]
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Epicentre of Mass Coral Bleaching – Still So Beautiful (Part 1)
I went to the very epicentre of the claimed latest severe mass coral bleaching event, at John Brewer Reef off Townsville, and found a coral wonderland.
Not Expecting Coral Bleaching During a La Niña
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has uploaded some footage of John Brewer Reef that is part of the Underwater Museum of Art, the footage was apparently taken by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in February. It does not show a lot of bleached coral, but it does show some badly bleached individual…
Most Published Studies Exaggerated the Effects of Ocean Acidification
Many of the published studies on ocean acidification, especially those studies published in high impact journals and accompanied by sensational media reporting, have turned-out to be wrong, or at least exaggerated.
Feeding the Fishes, A$1 Billion
The Great Barrier Reef is vast: a network of coral reefs that cover an area about the size of Italy. It is in good condition. After all, unlike coral reefs in many other tropical parts of the world, Australia is a rich country with a population concentrated in the south – a long way from the corals.
Plain English Lost on the High Court of Australia
Originally appeared in Jennifer Marohasy.com Coral reefs can be messy, and so can court cases. And so it is with the case […]
Bleached From a Distance
I lent my underwater camera (Olympus TG-6) to a dear friend who recently visited Lady Elliot Island at the Great Barrier Reef. […]
Knowing All the Species of Coral at Pixie Reef
Reefs are apparently in terminal decline. But how many species should an average inshore reef have? How many corals are there at Pixie Reef, near Cairns?
What Corals Can Tell Us About Climate Change
New resarch from the IPA reveals that records from living and fossilised corals show natural variations in temperature stretching back thousands of years.