Browsing BusinessWorld by Subject "barrier reefs"

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    • Cash offered for Great Barrier Reef rescue ideas 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (BusinessWorld, January 17, 2018, on page S1/8)
      Australia is calling on the world's top scientific minds to help save the Great Barrier Reef, offering hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund research into protecting the world's largest living structure. The UNESCO World ...

    • Climate change puts Australian reef on 'knife edge' 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (BusinessWorld, March 26, 2010, on page S3/8)
      The world's southernmost coral reef is on a "knife-edge" after warmer seas blamed on climate change bleached large parts of it for the first time, an Australian scientist warned on Wednesday. Peter Harrison, who has been ...

    • Great Barrier Reef should be listed as ‘in danger,’ says UNESCO committee 

      Reuters (BusinessWorld, June 23, 2021, on page S1/9)
      The Great Barrier Reef should be added to a list of “in danger” World Heritage Sites, a UN committee recommended on Tuesday, prompting an angry response from Australia which said it had been blindsided by the move and ...

    • Great Barrier Reef will die without climate action 

      Bloomberg (BusinessWorld, April 15, 2019, on page S2/7)
      Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef will die unless radical climate action is taken, including phasing out coal-fueled power, the Sydney Morning Herald reported, citing a report by a government agency. The reef will ...

    • Storms to starfish: Great Barrier Reefs faces rapid coral loss 

      Fogarty, David (BusinessWorld, October 5, 2012, on page S3/9)
      The world's largest coral reef - under threat from Australia's surging coal and gas shipments, climate change and a destructive starfish - is declining faster than ever and coral cover could fall to just 5% in the next ...

    • 'Tourism damaged Boracay reefs' 

      Monzon, Alden (BusinessWorld, June 5, 2015, on page S1/11)
      The coral reef system in Boracay, an island known for its white sand beaches the world over, has been seriously degraded by tourism-related activities in the last two decades, a study by the Japan International Cooperation ...

    • Ultra-thin sun shield could protect Great Barrier Reef 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (BusinessWorld, March 28, 2018, on page S2/10)
      An ultra-fine biodegradable film some 50,000 times thinner than a human hair could be enlisted to protect the Great Barrier Reef from environmental degradation, researchers said Tuesday. The World Heritage-listed site, ...