An international team of scientists working on Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR) has found a clear link between coral disease and warmer ocean temperatures.

For the first time in several years, large fresh water flood plumes carrying sediment, nutrients, other pollutants and debris from the mainland have travelled to the outer reefs of the Great Barrier Reef threatening vulnerable corals.

If regulatory approval is received, a pilot sponge farm could be established in Torres Strait.

NEW YORK, NY(February 27, 2007) –The United Nations Foundation (UN Foundation) and Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, released today"Confronting Climate Change: Avoiding the Unmanageable and Managing the Unavoidable, " the final report of the Scientific Expert Group on Climate Change and Sus

The Arafura Timor Research Facility (ATRF) will be under new leadership as a result of the recent departure of CEO Stuart Fitch, who has led the facility since its inception.

Recent "early warning" surveys suggest a crown-of-thorns starfish outbreak is not an imminent threat to corals on the Great Barrier Reef.

Corals already under pressure from global climate change are facing an additional threat in the form of pesticides running off from the land, a new scientific study in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series shows.

Even as coral reef scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) are saying the GBR may escape a major bleaching event this year, the upcoming launch of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on climate change is turning up the heat on the issue of global warming.

Census of Marine Life, Highlights 2006

Scientists intrigued by life around hottest-ever seafloor vent

Manhattan-sized school of herring off New Jersey coast

More new than familiar species in Antarctic-area trawl

Australian and Indonesian scientists are developing ways to address environmental concerns regarding the Asia-Pacific cage fish industry.