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Staghorn and tabular corals suffered mass die-offs, robbing many individual reefs of their characteristic shapes. ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies/ Mia Hoogenboom

April 18, 2018

How the 2016 bleaching altered the shape of the northern Great Barrier Reef

Selina Ward, The University of Queensland

The 2016 bleaching event resulted in 30% mortality on the Great Barrier Reef, with many corals dying of the heat before they bleached and the loss of branching corals creating less complex reef structure.

The increasingly bleached coral at Black Point on the Cobourg Peninsula is a worrying sign of what’s to come for other coral reefs in Australia. Alan Withers

March 19, 2018

New coral bleaching outbreak in NT a worrying sign of our warming oceans

Selina Ward, The University of Queensland

Coral bleaching has struck the Northern Territory, adding urgency to the need for better national management strategies for our warming oceans.

Abbot Point on the Great Barrier Reef, where dredge spoil will be dumped on land. AAP Image/Supplied by Greenpeace

March 16, 2015

Dumping Abbot Point dredge spoil on land won’t save the reef

Selina Ward, The University of Queensland

New plans to ban dredging on the Great Barrier Reef and dump dredge spoil on land won’t save the reef.

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