Browsing The Manila Times by Subject "barrier reefs"
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China ship pays $29M for reef disaster
(The Manila Times,September 20, 2016 , on page B7)The owners of a Chinese ship that ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef in 2010 agreed to pay Australia Aus$39. 3 million ($29.6 million) on Monday, in a settlement dismissed by conservationists as "woefully inadequate." ... -
Coral transplant raises Barrier Reef survival hopes
(The Manila Times,November 27, 2017 , on page A8)Coral bred in one part of the Great Barrier Reef was successfully transplanted into another area, Australian scientists said on Sunday, in a project they hope could restore damaged ecosystems around the world. In a trial ... -
Global warming threatens jewels of nature and civilization
(The Manila Times,December 10, 2015 , on page A6)A warming climate is one of the principal menaces to the dazzling, 2,300-kilometer coral reef system off the coast of northeastern Australia known as the Great Barrier Reef. Home to thousands of species of fish and other ... -
Great Barrier Reef a $42B asset 'too big to fail' - study
(The Manila Times,June 27, 2017 , on page B4)Australia's under-pressure Great Barrier Reef is an asset worth Aus$56 billion (US$42 billion) and as an ecosystem and economic driver is "too big to fail", a study said Monday. Using economic modeling, it said the reef ... -
Great Barrier Reef bleaching worst – scientists
(The Manila Times,April 8, 2020 , on page B3)Australia’s Great Barrier Reef had suffered its most widespread coral bleaching on record, scientists said Tuesday in a dire warning about the threat posed by climate change to the world’s largest living organism. James ... -
Great barrier reef gets biggest coral re-seeding
(The Manila Times,November 29, 2018 , on page B6)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. The researchers said Wednesday ... -
India's Adani to start work of mine near Great Barrier Reef
(The Manila Times,June 7, 2017 , on page B5)Indian mining giant Adani on Tuesday said it will start work on a huge US $16 billion coal project that environmentalists warn will damage Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The controversial project -- biggest investment in ... -
Third of coral 'dead or dying' in parts of barrier reef
(The Manila Times,May 31, 2016 , on page B7)At least 35 percent of corals in parts of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef are dead or dying from mass bleaching caused by global warming, scientists said Monday. The assessment was made following months of aerial and ... -
Time running out of Great Barrier Reef
(The Manila Times,March 7, 2014 , on page A5)Time is running out for Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef, with climate change set to wreck irreversible damage by 2030 unless immediate action is taken, AFP reports according to the marine scientists. In a report ...