A dreadful discovery about the crown-of-thorns starfish contains a silver lining for the Great Barrier Reef
Jonathan Allen has good news and bad news for Australians regarding the crown-of-thorns sea star.
Jonathan Allen has good news and bad news for Australians regarding the crown-of-thorns sea star.
Plants & Animals
Feb 5, 2019
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Ecology and technology have combined to give nature a helping hand, using a robot to deliver heat-tolerant coral larvae directly onto Australia's Great Barrier Reef in the first small-scale pilot of a new technique to help ...
Environment
Dec 13, 2018
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A team of researchers with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has found that coral larvae prefer to set up a new home in a place noisy with other living organisms over a barren soundless site. In their paper published ...
Scientists have launched the largest-ever attempt to regenerate coral on the endangered Great Barrier Reef by harvesting millions of the creatures' eggs and sperm during their annual spawning.
Environment
Nov 28, 2018
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QUT's reef protector robot is set to become 'mother' to hundreds of millions of baby corals in a special delivery coinciding with this month's annual coral spawning on the Great Barrier Reef.
Environment
Nov 1, 2018
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Coral reefs have long faced problems like overfishing, global warming and pollution—but they're also threatened by how slow they regenerate.
Environment
Sep 24, 2018
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The troubling loss of coral reefs worldwide has prompted scientists and conservationists to assist the reefs' recovery through active restoration approaches. Transplanting corals on degraded reefs aims at increasing coral ...
Environment
Jan 3, 2018
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New research has found that, despite the extensive damage to coral in recent events, there are still 100 reefs on the Great Barrier Reef that are well suited to promoting the regional recovery of the ecosystem after major ...
Environment
Nov 28, 2017
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Coral bred in one part of the Great Barrier Reef was successfully transplanted into another area, Australian scientists said Sunday, in a project they hope could restore damaged ecosystems around the world.
Environment
Nov 26, 2017
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For reefs facing huge challenges, more coral larvae doesn't necessarily translate to increased rates of coral recovery on degraded reefs, a new Queensland study has showed.
Environment
May 17, 2017
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