Jack the Insider recently wrote in The Australian of the rising number of people who believe the Earth is flat, among other crazy conspiracy theories. Not so long ago I would…
The Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO have delivered their biennial dose of depression about the climate, but their report ignores a slew of positive environmental changes. The Bureau of…
Just completed 4 short videos on the reef in front of a brilliant audience of young people in Melbourne. The videos go over the main threats to the reef and…
The University of Delaware has conducted an investigation into Danielle Dixson, who worked on the effect of carbon dioxide on reef fish while at James Cook University. It found she…
The death of the Great Barrier has been greatly exaggerated Harry Potter fans know what a Dementor is. To quote Remus Lupin it is a creature that: glories in decay…
The latest data on coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef, produced by the Australian Institute of Marine Science, should be a cause for celebration. Church bells should be ringing…
Just as a team from the United Nations were flying into Australia at the behest of James Cook University Professor Terry Hughes – seeking to have the Great Barrier Reef’s…
The top feature image shows two of the participants in the IPA’s Reef Rebel program in the water. All the photographs in this blog post were taken at Stanley Reef…
It was so cold and rainy in Cairns on Tuesday, but it didn’t stop us getting on a cruise boat and going out to Moore Reef, which is part of…
This is Part 3 of a new series: Rebels to the Coral Reef Cause. The Great Barrier Reef has been around in various forms for more than 600,000 years. It…
To the extent that it is possible for any human endeavour to be so, science is value-free. Science is a way of attempting to understand the world in which we…
Everybody claims to care about the Great Barrier Reef, but very few people take the time to actually visit it. The reports of mass coral bleaching this past summer are…