RELATED STORIES The beach is officially closed: ABC has cancelled the Poppy Montgomery summer drama Reef Break after one season, TVLine has learned. A network source confirms that ABC will not be ordering more episodes and the series is not planned to return. Montgomery (Without a Trace, Unforgettable) starred as pro surfer Cat Chambers, a […]
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Poppy Montgomery Teases Reef Break Finale, Explains Why Fate of ABC’s ‘Beach Read’ May Be in France’s Hands
RELATED STORIES Cat Chambers, Reef Break‘s pro surfer and grifter-turned-fixer, is on the run while yet tackling her toughest case yet — to clear her own name — as ABC’s summertime escapade comes to a close on a special night, this Friday at 9/8c. Set in Nimitz Bay, a community on the fictional U.S. territory […]
Great Barrier Reef Helicopter Crash Kills Two American Tourists
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Some Great Barrier Reef turtle populations produce nothing but females
Enlarge / Sea turtle. (credit: Wikimedia Commons) Humans figure out whether to develop as males or females based on the presence of a single gene on the Y chromosome. But that’s just one of a dizzying number of ways that plants and animals determine their sex. A large group of reptiles, including crocodilians and many […]
Australia to build superhighway for EVs beside Great Barrier Reef
MELBOURNE – Australia is building a superhighway offering free charging stations in a bid to boost use of electric vehicles, the northeastern state of Queensland said on Thursday, most of its route fringed by the Great Barrier Reef tourist attraction. The move comes as governments around the world regulate to cut emissions by boosting the […]
The endangered Great Barrier Reef is not in danger, says UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization had voted not to add Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to its list of sites in danger. The baffling decision was taken despite the reef’s currently perilous state, where back-to-back coral bleaching events threaten more than two thirds of its length. Even worse, is that UNESCO published a […]
Great Barrier Reef is in danger: How ordinary travelers can help
Share this article The second consecutive year of mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef highlights the wider global problem affecting many of the word’s marine habitats. What do the experts say, and what can ordinary travelers do? According to the United Nations Environment Programme, the period between 2014 and 2016 saw the longest […]
Artificially bright clouds might save the Great Barrier Reef
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is dying due to changes in ocean temperature, and conventional attempts to save it (such as improving water quality or limiting fishing) haven’t panned out. However, scientists might have an unusual approach that works: tweaking the clouds above the reef. They’re investigating the possibility of lowering the ocean temperature by artificially […]
‘Severe’ bleaching of Great Barrier Reef causes catastrophic damage
An unprecedented amount of coral bleaching for two consecutive years has severely damaged two-thirds of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, aerial surveys have shown. Scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies recorded severe coral bleaching for the second time in 12 months after surveying the Great Barrier Reef’s entire 2,300km-long (1,500) miles […]
Only an End to Global Warming Can Save the Great Barrier Reef
Improvements to water quality or fishing controls don’t prevent underwater heatwaves damaging coral, studies of mass bleaching events reveal The post Only an End to Global Warming Can Save the Great Barrier Reef appeared first on WIRED. WIRED
