Media Report

The Conversation

10 October 2013

Australia is already feeling the effects of climate change, with record-breaking temperatures not just over summer, but over the past 12 months as well. Research suggests that such events are many times more likely thanks to climate change.

The Guardian

08 October 2013

American environmental groups have escalated a lawsuit against the US government which aims to prevent it funding two "deadly" gas facilities beside the Great Barrier Reef.

The three groups have filed a challenge to the funding of a second facility, which is being backed by the US Export-Import Bank, to add to an original lawsuit that was launched in December last year. Read more

Goldcoast.com.au

08 October 2013

THE discovery of another species of rare frogs forced changes to the design of a Gold Coast light rail bridge, it can be revealed.

The green-thighed frog is the second rare amphibian found on the tram route after a colony of tusked frogs were discovered in Surfers Paradise and had to be relocated to Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary. Read more

The Newsport Daily

07 October 2013

An environmental leap of faith has paid off for one of Australia’s rarest frogs, thanks to researchers at James Cook University in Cairns.

In early September, a team led by James Cook University doctors, Conrad Hoskin and Robert Puschendorf, performed the first successful frog translocation in Queensland’s history, giving the Armoured Mistfrog (Litoria lorica), pictured, a second chance at survival. Read more

The Newsport Daily

01 October 2013

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is inviting public comment on the North-East Shipping Management Plan (NESMP), draft guidelines developed to ensure the protection of Australia’s north-east marine environment and improve shipping safety. 

The Conversation

27 September 2013

The University of Queensland

23 September 2013

The Catlin Seaview Survey last year made one of the great wonders of the world – Australia's Great Barrier Reef – accessible to anyone with an internet connection. 

Now the visual access to the reef that has been seen on Google Street View will go even further, with the launch of the Catlin Global Reef Record, a free online resource that will make the survey's imagery invaluable to scientific researchers. Read more

Popular Science

23 September 2013

To track the effects of warming seas on coral reefs, a new survey project is launching an extensive database of panoramic underwater imagery.

Today the Catlin Seaview Survery - which recently brought us some amazing views of the Galápagos coastline - launches the first-of-its-kind databse of our underwater world. Read more

ABC News

ABC News

20 September 2013

Queensland researchers say a new study shows present climate change policies could decide the future of the Great Barrier Reef over the next century.

The nine-month University of Queensland study on Heron Island, off Gladstone, compared how four coral reef ecosystems inside plastic tubs were affected by different climate change scenarios. Read more