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Feb 3, 2012
Ticket price relief for trips to Great Barrier Reef The Cairns Post TOUR boat operators struggling with the cost of doing business on the Great Barrier Reef say their pleas have been answered by the Federal Government, which yesterday slashed one of the industry's dearest levies. Operators pay the Government $6 in ... |
Jan 31, 2012
 Kuwait News Agency | Great Barrier Reef survival frozen in Outback Radio Australia A piece of Great Barrier Reef has been frozen... in the Australian outback, hundreds of kilometres from the coast. The coral - made up of 70 billion sperm and 22 billion coral embryos - will be suspended in a liquid nitrogen chamber of minus 196 ... Great Barrier Reef 'on ice' Sea cucumbers may save Great Barrier Reef Rare Eclipse will pass over Great Barrier Reef |
Jan 30, 2012
 International Business Times AU | Great Barrier Reef 'on ice' News24 This special episode features some of the most dangerous adventures and incredible crocodile... Was R67.95 Now R64.55 Dubbo - The arid plains fringing Australia's desert centre are more suited to camels than blooms of coral but here, ... UN Cites Australia's Great Barrier Reef As Model for Sustainable Marine Management |
Jan 27, 2012
 Telegraph.co.uk | Exclusive discount on the BBC's Great Barrier Reef series Telegraph.co.uk Save more than £8 when you buy the BBC's Great Barrier Reef series on DVD and/ or Blu-ray. Simply redeem your promotional code at checkout. Marine biologist and sport diver Monty Halls explores the underwater eco-system of Australia's Great Barrier ... Great Barrier Reef is premiere viewing location for rare, total Solar Eclipse Scientists freeze Great Barrier Reef coral sperm and embryos Great Barrier Reef hopes on ice in Aussie Outback |
Jan 25, 2012
 AFP | Great Barrier Reef hopes on ice in Aussie Outback AFP DUBBO, Australia — The arid plains fringing Australia's desert centre are more suited to camels than blooms of coral but here, hundreds of miles from the coast, a piece of the Great Barrier Reef has been put on ice. Suspended in a liquid nitrogen ... Great Barrier Reef is premiere viewing location for rare, total Solar Eclipse |
Jan 24, 2012
 Sin Chew Jit Poh | Fears for Great Barrier Reef over Rio Tinto mine expansion Australian Mining By Andrew Duffy on 24 January 2012 Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke has reopened consideration of Rio Tinto's $1.4 billion South of Embley bauxite mine expansion following concern over its environmental impact. Environmental groups have accused ... Great Barrier Reef hopes on ice in Aussie Outback Great Barrier Reef on ice in Aussie Outback |
Jan 23, 2012
New alert over Rio Tinto threat to Great Barrier Reef The Australian RIO Tinto's $1.4 billion bauxite mine expansion on Cape York has become the latest flash point over the threats caused by increased shipping in the Great Barrier Reef due to the mining boom. The federal government has been forced to reopen ... |
Jan 20, 2012
 ABC Online | Killing the Great Barrier Reef for short-term profit ABC Online If it comes to pass, will the Great Barrier Reef with all its beauty, tourism and fishing, be exchanged for short-term fossil-fuel profits, royalties and the temporary balancing of budgets? Gladstone is the world's fourth largest coal exporting port; ... |
Jan 18, 2012
New Great Barrier Reef dive safety rules The Cairns Post NEW laws are set to make it safer for divers and snorkellers travelling to the Great Barrier Reef, but the reforms wouldn't have saved the life of a man who died on a snorkelling tour yesterday. The 42-year-old Irish tourist died suddenly on board the ... |
Jan 11, 2012
Figures reveal Great Barrier Reef could face more dredging ABC Online Concern has been growing in Queensland over the amount of dredging being approved in the world heritage zoned Great Barrier Reef, in order to make room for six ports being built to accommodate that state's massive expansion of coal and coal seam gas ... |