Great Barrier Reef
The latest news and comment on the world's largest coral reef system, the Great Barrier Reef
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Conservation groups are ‘eco-traitors’ for lobbying the Unesco world heritage committee on reef, says Abbot government backbencher George Christensen
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Ambassadors and consuls general enlisted in ‘whole of government’ campaign to lobby decision-making nations on world heritage listing
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Legal group says state environmental regulator gave no regard to reports in India claiming one of the companies in the Adani group was destroying mangroves and bribing officials
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Corals such as those found on the Great Barrier Reef consume ‘microplastics’ in the sea at the same rate as their normal food but cannot expel the fragments
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Labor government appoints state’s first ever reef minister as it steps up plan to avoid the UN listing the ecosystem as ‘in danger’
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Climate change science has been a non-starter in the Queensland election, despite the state being on the front line of impacts
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Privatisation, transparency, mining, the reef, health and bikie laws are the key policy battlegrounds in Saturday’s poll
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Australian government moves to ban dumping of dredge spoil in Great Barrier Reef marine park as it lobbies to stop the reef being declared ‘in danger’
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Queensland Labor leader rejects dumping of spoil in the sensitive Caley valley wetlands but does not offer an alternative
Slime tourism on the Great Barrier Reef: our future thanks to QLD's government