Townsville: Australia’s most eminent tropical marine scientists today strongly backed calls by the Pew Environment Group and partners to secure world-class, no-take marine reserves at key locations around the world.
10 September 2008An event held as part of Brisbane’s Riversymposium will inform an international meeting on water resources.
1 September 2008Great Barrier Reef coral communities may not be able to recover from bleaching as easily as previously proposed, according to new UQ research.
1 August 2008University of Queensland researchers believe we need to consider the radical step of moving plants and animals to help them survive the impact of climate change.
17 July 2008The gradual disintegration of the world's coral reefs under climate change will have significant impacts on food supplies, international tourism, water quality and the safety of coastal communities.
8 July 2008Killer hotspots of over-heated ocean water which destroy huge areas of coral and bring starvation to birds, fish and other sea creatures can now be pinpointed.
25 June 2008A University of Queensland expert who pioneered research linking climate change projections with coral reef distress is the 2008 Smart State Premier’s Fellow.
21 May 2008Springer Science+Business Media (Springer) has made a donation of journals and books to UQ's Heron Island Research Station (HIRS).
18 May 2008UQ researchers have today expressed their concern about the limited protection being offered by the draft Moreton Bay Marine Park zoning plan.
6 March 2008Eminent coral scientists have given world leaders in Bali more reason to act urgently against climate change, by producing a new report that warns coral reefs will disappear within decades if atmospheric CO2 levels continue to rise.
14 December 2007Most coral reefs will not survive the predicted rises in global temperatures and atmospheric CO2 emissions that are forecast, marine scientists will reveal tomorrow morning at UQ.
13 December 2007More than 50 scientists of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies today declared the following statements unanimously:
22 October 2007An international team of Australian and Israeli researchers has discovered what could be the aphrodisiac for the biggest moonlight sex event on Earth.
18 October 2007The world’s oceans are becoming more acid, with potentially devastating consequences for corals and the marine organisms that build reefs and provide much of the Earth’s breathable oxygen.
17 October 2007A new scholarship initiative at The University of Queensland’s Australasian Centre of Excellence will help protect coral reefs around South-East Asia and the Pacific for future generations.
13 July 2007Using the corals on the Great Barrier Reef as a history book, researchers have linked land use along the coast to decades of declining water quality and poor coral health.
31 May 2007Australian scientists who contributed to the latest global greenhouse study say the Great Barrier Reef is one of the nation’s great assets most at risk under climate change.
6 April 2007University of Queensland marine researchers are confident that most of the significant data sets at Heron Island Research Station were backed up when the world-renowned facility was damaged by fire on March 30.
4 April 2007A mysterious disease is causing the corals of the Great Barrier Reef to kill themselves - and scientists are battling to find out why.
20 March 2007Australian scientists are throwing new light on the killers responsible for the mass death of corals under global warming.
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