Great Barrier Reef

The latest news and comment on the world's largest coral reef system, the Great Barrier Reef

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• Great Barrier Reef: 'a massive chemistry experiment gone wrong'

  10 Oct 2014: Scientists warn that pollution may be dramatically increasing the rate of ocean acidification in inshore areas, threatening coral

• Great Barrier Reef dredge approval was ‘suicide’ for reef authority

  7 Oct 2014: Coral reef expert says Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has lost its credibility and budget cuts left it unable to protect the world heritage site

• Queensland plan to dump dredge spoil onshore 'will not harm wetlands'

  4 Oct 2014: Deputy premier Jeff Seeney says despite conservation group’s concerns, nationally significant wetland will be preserved

• Barrier reef dredging: green groups win more time for court challenge

  25 Sep 2014: Conservationists are opposed to any dredging which would enable the expansion of the Abbot Point coal terminal

• Green groups accused of trashing Queensland's reputation overseas

  20 Sep 2014: State environment minister claims the main aim of conservation groups is to shut down Queensland’s resource industry

• Recreational divers enlisted in research on elusive Australian porcupine ray

  16 Sep 2014: Researchers have asked ‘citizen scientists’ to help gather footage and images on mysterious stingray species that has only been recorded 25 times since 1770

• Great Barrier Reef plan 'not enough to ward off UN in-danger listing'

  15 Sep 2014: Federal and Queensland government proposal to improve water quality ‘little more than business as usual’, say environmentalists

• Rally to protest 'green attack' on Abbot Point over Great Barrier Reef concerns

  11 Sep 2014: Local business owners and politicians say the development of the port and associated coalmines can save north Queensland

• David Attenborough returns to the Great Barrier Reef for a new BBC series

  9 Sep 2014: Veteran wildlife presenter to film three hour-long nature documentaries for BBC1 to be broadcast next year

• Great Barrier Reef: legal action to stand despite new dredging plan

  9 Sep 2014: Guardian Australia: Conservationists ‘waiting to see details’ of proposed land-based sediment disposal before dropping challenge to sea dumping

• Barrier Reef dredging: Queensland approves plan to dump spoil on land

  8 Sep 2014: The state government has asked the federal environment minister, Greg Hunt, to fast-track approval for the plan

• Reversal over Great Barrier Reef dredge dumping plan

  6 Sep 2014: Queensland government wants sediment from Abbot Point development to be dumped on land instead, report says
  

• Great Barrier Reef: Senate inquiry calls for halt to sediment dumping

  4 Sep 2014: Report says more studies needed into impacts of dredging and calls for end to cuts to government agencies that protect reef

• Palmer United party to block ‘one-stop-shop’ environmental approvals

  2 Sep 2014: Guardian Australia: Senators will vote against Coalition’s plan to hand the states decision-making powers over development projects

• Abbot Point port developers to ditch Great Barrier Reef seabed dumping plan

  2 Sep 2014: Developers are set to submit a new proposal in which dredged sediment is disposed of on land rather than at sea

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