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WHILE some the shark-tooth predators lurking off the Mackay Whitsunday coastline travel great distances to Bali and New Caledonia, many of them like to stay closer to home. Laura, Shayna, Jon, Alan and Gareth are ordinary names but they belong to some of the creatures being tracked in our ocean to collect more data. A data-centric organisation built to help scientists collect previously unattainable data in the ocean has provided a rare insight into the movements of various sharks in our region. The satellite tracking website provides data on 16 tagged sharks in waters along the Whitsunda...

Largest coral reef eco system and includes some three thousand individual reefs. but not far from the reef on the mainland at abbot point there are manmade mountains of coal the world's largest coal porters being built here coal of all things a major greenhouse gas source but me a biology beach the locals are sea they angry their government has approved the terminals construction they say coal and coral just don't go together. to raise him up right here i'm devastated if we are building this mine adanis building this mine with a culture of you know i think four thousand. ships out there how is...