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Plumes of seawater droplets generated by the jet sprayer rise into the sky (credit Brendan Kelaher/Southern Cross University). ...

As the new Australian Climate Service undertakes a landmark project to analyse and map our changing climate across every city and region in the country,...

Date Time Penn State biologist and colleagues receive $4M to identify heat-tolerant corals An international team of researchers has been awarded $4 million to identify naturally heat-tolerant corals. Project lead Christian Voolstra collects samples underwater at Ducie Island, one of the world’s most remote reefs in the world. Image: Pete West An international team that includes Penn State biologist Iliana Baums has been awarded a $4 million grant from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation to id...

Why reef interventions are not enough   Latest forecasts from the NOAA indicate that the Great Barrier Reef may narrowly escape what would have been its fourth mass bleaching event in six years. But while this might feel like a chance to pause and enjoy a moment’s relief, it is a mere blip in the trajectory that is inevitable ecological disaster. The health of the Great Barrier Reef is now in critical status. And with current efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees far from sufficient...

Micro-check Dams Among Others Are Funded by Jamaicas $244 Million Climate Resiliency Budget The government and the Inter-American Development Bank are supplying the financing. Activities completed by the end of December 2020 include crop resilience/sustainability modeling activities, the Upper Rio Minho Watershed Sediment budget monitoring program, seven technical papers to endorse the National Spatial Plans development, and the policymakers and government ministries climate change awareness pr...

QFFD signs contribution agreement with IFAD  22 Dec 2020 - 9:41 Khalifa bin Jassim Al Kuwari, Director-General of Qatar Fund for Development, signing the agreement. The Peninsula Doha: Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) signs a contribution agreement with International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). This contribution will support the adaptation program for smallholder agriculture. Khalifa bin Jassim Al-Kuwari, Director General of Qatar Fund for Development, said, “The COVID-19 pa...

Mapping the undersea landscape of the reef Four researchers on a boat, despite the pandemic. Overview of Sykes Reef on the Great Barrier Reef from RV Falkor multibeam data. Credit: SOI About 160 kilometres off the Queensland coast, the RV Falkor is exploring the deep blue waters of the southern Great Barrier Reef in search of drowned worlds. The research vessel – operated by the Schmidt Ocean Institute – is nearing the end of a month-long expedition to map undersea features that formed dur...

Premium Content Subscriber only DESPITE the most widespread bleaching event ever recorded, researchers have found more than 60 coral colonies born through the first Great Barrier Reef Foundation Coral IVF trial on the Reef in 2016 are thriving and likely to spawn next year.   Pictures of the Parent Colonies Bathing Tubs in 2016. Supplied by: Great Barrier Reef Foundation. Photographer Gary Cranitch Queensland Museum. Great Barrier Reef Foundation managing director Anna Marsden said she co...