The Great Barrier Reef is the system of 2,500reefsand islands. It is the largestcoral reefin the world. Its area is about 248,000 square kilometers. The Great Barrier Reef is in Australia. The Great Barrier Reef is in UNESCO’s World Heritage. This means that it is a very special pl...
The researchers collected drill cores from the skeletons of living Porites coral heads at 10 to 100 feet water depth on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia. These large coral heads reach nearly 10 feet (3.05 meters) in diameter, and some have been growing for hundreds of year...
Unprecedented coral bleaching in consecutive years has damaged two-thirds of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, aerial surveys have shown. 航空勘测发现,近年连续发生的珊瑚白化问题空前严重,澳大利亚三分之二的大堡礁已遭到重创。 The bleaching - or loss of algae - affects a 1,500km (932 miles) area of...
Scientists say the Great Barrier Reef is facing a critical period of heat stress over the coming weeks following the most widespread coral bleaching the natural wonder has ever endured.
12 (Xinhua) -- One of the most popular reef spots at the Great Barrier Reef in Australia has almost fully recovered from the worst coral bleaching ever known in recent history, a NewsCorp report said on Monday. A three-minute video clip recorded on September 2 by Quicksilver Group, a ...
Famous people and the Great Barrier Reef Our brand new $3.85 million, state-of-the-art Quicksilver Dive Centre, was officially opened by the Chairman of Quicksilver Shin Watari and the Honourable Annastacia Palaszczuk Premier of Queensland on 23 October 2018. The only dedicated 5 Star PADI Traini...
The deteriorating Great Barrier Reef25 photos "It's really important to note that some of the key tourism areas, particularly in the northern and central Great Barrier Reef, have only shown moderate bleaching," Wachenfeld said. At that level of bleaching, scientists are hopeful that most of th...
Flying above the Great Barrier Reef in a single-engine plane, Neal Cantin could see the damage. As a coral specialist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, the tell-tale signs were clear: the reef appeared to glow, its calcium carbonate skeleton clearly visible. ...
SYDNEY, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- After 10 tourists died during a six month period at the end 2016, the Queensland (QLD) State Government in Australia set about tightening regulations for dive operators on the iconic Great Barrier Reef. After more than one year of consultations, the snorkeling and...
SYDNEY, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- A fleet of tourism boats, private vessels, superyachts and research ships has set out to conduct a census of the Great Barrier Reef. Launched on Thursday by Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef, "the Great Reef Census" citizen science project has recruited more ...