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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 identify corals that are naturally resilient to climate change. This is one of four newly funded proje...

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, suffice it to say, things are not looking so great for the Great Barrier Reef.

Micro-check Dams Among Others Are Funded by Jamaica's $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 Plan's development, and the policymakers and government ministries' climate change awareness program. In addition, 1,595 micro-check dams have been installed to limit the influx of flood water...