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GLOBAL WARMING IS STARVING THE WORLD'S REEFS FASTER THAN EVER
In the past, coral bleaching occurred when warmer winds and El Nino weather conditions heated up sea surfaces... READ MORE›
CORAL TRANSPLANT SUCCESS COULD BE A RAY OF HOPE FOR THE GREAT BARRIER REEF
In 2016 coral bleaching killed more than a third of the Great Barrier Reef... READ MORE›
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ARE PLANTS INTELLIGENT? NEW BOOK SAYS YES
This is why plants have no brain not because they are not intelligent, but because they would be vulnerable, Mancuso said... READ MORE›
BRITISH-OWNED CRUISE SHIP WRECKS ONE OF INDONESIA'S BEST CORAL REEFS
Mongabay Ship ran aground at Raja Ampat, one of the country's most popular dive sites that has been likened to an underwater Amazon... READ MORE›
TSUNAMI WARNINGS AFTER 7.8 QUAKE STRIKES OFF SOLOMON ISLANDS' COAST
Another earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit 66km west of Kirakira, Solomon Islands, according to USGS... READ MORE›
THE GREAT BARRIER REEF: A CATASTROPHE LAID BARE
Climate change is the greatest threat facing the Great Barrier Reef and other coral reefs around the world... READ MORE›
SCIENTISTS SAY A DRAMATIC WORLDWIDE CORAL BLEACHING EVENT IS NOW UNDERWAY
Coral reefs are expected to see ocean temperatures that can lead to bleaching sometime this year... READ MORE›
CLIMATE-RELATED DEATH OF CORAL AROUND WORLD ALARMS SCIENTISTS
The damage off Kiritimati is part of a mass bleaching of coral reefs around the world, only the third on record and possibly the worst ever... READ MORE›
MEXICO LAUNCHES PIONEERING SCHEME TO INSURE ITS CORAL REEF
A stretch of coral reef off Mexico is the testing ground for a new idea that could protect fragile environments around the world insurance... READ MORE›
APRIL BREAKS GLOBAL TEMPERATURE RECORD, MARKING SEVEN MONTHS OF NEW HIGHS
They've triggered the third recorded global coral bleaching, and in Australia 93 percent of the reefs have been affected by bleaching along the 2,300km Great Barrier Reef... READ MORE›
THE WORLD'S 'RAREST' CREATURE HAS JUST BEEN SEEN FOR ONLY THE THIRD TIME EVER
Peter Ward a professor of biology at the University of Washington in the US first saw Allonautilus scrobiculatus in 1984... READ MORE›
TESTICLE-MUNCHING FISH SPECIES FOUND IN US LAKE
They are almost identical to the piranha you couldn't even tell from the outside he explained after the Scandinavian pacu sighting... READ MORE›
THE RAINFORESTS HOLD THE KEY TO TAMING EL NIA?O'S DESTRUCTION
The rainforests hold the key to taming el ni o's destruction... READ MORE›
GLOBAL CORAL BLEACHING EVENT MIGHT BECOME NEW NORMAL, EXPERT WARNS
Eakin said although there wasn't a global coral bleaching event in 2013, every year featured bleaching somewhere in the world... READ MORE›
INDONESIA SEEKS JUSTICE AFTER CRUISE SHIP 'IRREPARABLY' DAMAGES WORLD'S RICHEST CORAL REEF
In a statement this week, the Indonesian Maritime Affairs Ministry spokesperson said the destruction to the largely untouched Raja Ampat... READ MORE›
CORAL BLEACHING SPREADS TO MALDIVES, DEVASTATING SPECTACULAR REEFS
When Noaa declared the event was a global bleaching event in October 2015, Mark Eakin, Noaa's Coral Reef Watch coordinator, said it could last well into 2016... READ MORE›
INDONESIAN PLANE CARRYING 54 IS DECLARED MISSING IN PAPUA
The plane lost contact with air traffic controllers about 33 minutes after takeoff, said Mr. Toha, who like many Indonesians goes by one name... READ MORE›
LABOR SAYS AUSTRALIA MUST 'TELL STORY OF PACIFIC TO WORLD' AT PARIS CLIMATE TALKS
The impacts of climate change are being felt acutely by Pacific nations, many of which are low-lying, remote, and with vulnerable infrastructure... READ MORE›
PACIFIC LEADERS VOICE FRUSTRATION OVER AUSTRALIA'S POSITION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Australia and New Zealand are the economic powerhouses among the 16 nations making up the Pacific Islands Forum... READ MORE›
PNG POLICE INVESTIGATE ALLEGED MANUS RAPE BY EXPATS
Allegations of this nature are a matter for the Papua New Guinea Police Force, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection said in a statement... READ MORE›
DEVASTATING GLOBAL CORAL BLEACHING EVENT COULD HIT GREAT BARRIER REEF NEXT
The big problem with that is that coral reefs need time to recover... READ MORE›
U.S. TO RESETTLE AUSTRALIA'S REFUGEES LANGUISHING ON ISLANDS
The Obama administration had agreed to resettle refugees among almost 1,300 asylum seekers held at Australia's expense on the island nations of Nauru and Papua New Guinea... READ MORE›
MANUS REFUGEES 'DENIED WORK, TRAVEL RIGHTS'
Australia and Papua New Guinea's memorandum of understanding says those moved to East Lorengau will be treated with dignity and respect under the relevant human-rights conventions... READ MORE›
NO DAMAGE AFTER POWERFUL QUAKE HITS OFF PAPUA NEW GUINEA
A very strong earthquake has struck off the coast of Papua New Guinea, and a tsunami threat has been issued to areas near the epicenter... READ MORE›
NEARLY HALF OF WORLD'S MARINE LIFE HAS BEEN WIPED OUT IN JUST 40 YEARS, WWF STUDY FINDS
Those that live or feed on, or near, coral reefs... READ MORE›
CLIMATE CHANGE WARNINGS FOR CORAL REEF MAY HAVE COME TO PASS, SCIENTISTS SAY
As coral bleaching threat is raised for Great Barrier Reef, experts say events show that dire projections for reefs under global warming were not alarmist... READ MORE›
INDONESIA TELLS OBAMA THEY WILL JOIN ASIA TRADE PACT
Indonesia is an open economy Widodo told reporters in the Oval Office and with the 250 million population we are the largest economy in Southeast Asia... READ MORE›
INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE: MAGNITUDE 7.0 QUAKE STRIKES IRIAN JAYA, WEST PAPUA
The Indonesian region of Irian Jaya in Papua has been struck by an earthquake registering a magnitude of 7.0, the US Geological Survey said... READ MORE›
PNG COURT RULES AUSTRALIA'S MANUS DETENTION CENTRE UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court rules that the detention of asylum seekers and refugees in Australia's Manus Island camps is unconstitutional... READ MORE›
DENTIST WINS 'GREEN OSCAR' FOR USING HEALTHCARE INCENTIVES TO HALT LOGGING
Teams of local forest guardians are trained to monitor illegal logging and teach others about the importance of healthy forest ecosystems and conservation... READ MORE›
HEADLINES 'EXAGGERATED' CLIMATE LINK TO SINKING OF PACIFIC ISLANDS
The major misunderstanding stems from the conflation of sea-level rise with climate change... READ MORE›
END OF PACIFIC SHORTWAVE DIPLOMATIC 'MISSTEP' AS ABC PULLS PLUG
The end of ABC shortwave radio broadcasts into the Pacific after 88 years has been criticised as an Australian foreign affairs 'misstep'... READ MORE›