Using Trash to Track Other Trash – Hakai Magazine
![Scuba divers removing derelict net from reef. The depth here was 30 feet. This debris pile was an agglomeration of a number of nets that had probably been swept together in the North Pacific Gyre (by Dr. Dwayne Meadows, NOAA/NMFS/OPR CC BY 2.0 via Flickr).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/5103120876_3a15a1822e_k-798x599.jpg)
An Australian organization is taking “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” to heart with its ghost net clean-up program….
‘Like wildfires underwater’: Worst summer on record for Great Barrier Reef as coral die-off sweeps planet – CNN World
![The Great Barrier Reef, seen from a scenic flight near Airlie beach, Queensland, October 21, 2018 (by Ayanadak123, CCBY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2048px-The_dazzling_colours_of_the_Great_Barrier_Reef_near_Airlie_Beach_Whitsunday_Islands_Queensland-798x511.jpg)
Rising sea temperatures around the planet have caused a bleaching event that is expected to be the most extensive on record…
Great Barrier Reef’s worst bleaching leaves giant coral graveyard: ‘It looks as if it has been carpet bombed’ – the Guardian
![One Tree Island, Great Barrier Reef: the majority of corals have died and among the few survivors, many are now bleached. In the foreground are two small bleached Galaxea colonies and an unbleached Montipora - May 1, 2024 (by John Turnbull CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED via Flickr).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/53692635206_418f1f9fda_k-798x532.jpg)
Last month the Australian Institute of Marine Science and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority released a report warning that the reef was experiencing “the highest levels of thermal stress on record”. The authority’s chief scientist, Dr Roger Beeden, spoke of extensive and uniform bleaching across the southern reefs, which had dodged the worst of much of the previous four mass bleaching events to blight the Great Barrier Reef since 2016…
Corals are bleaching in every corner of the ocean, threatening its web of life – the Washington Post
![Bleached plate corals and Sea Fans on Molasses Reef, Key Largo, Florida (by Matt Kieffer CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED via Flickr).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/15459162241_599eecfb34_k-798x599.jpg)
First around Fiji, then the Florida Keys, then Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, and now in the Indian Ocean. In the past year, anomalous ocean temperatures have left a trail of devastation for the world’s corals, bleaching entire reefs and threatening widespread coral mortality — and now, scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and International Coral Reef Initiative say the world is experiencing its fourth global bleaching event, the second in the last decade…
No, 11,200 Climate Refugees Aren’t Heading to Australia – the New York Times
![Aerial view of Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu (by Aurélia Rusek courtesy of UNDP, public domain).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tuvalu_1-798x598.jpeg)
Low-lying Tuvalu has reached a deal with its large Pacific neighbor to address the challenge of rising oceans, but it is not planning to pack up and go…
Groundwater a significant source of pollution on Great Barrier Reef, study shows – the Guardian
![The Great Barrier Reef, (by Steve Parish courtesy of Lock the Gate Alliance CC BY 2.0 DEED via Flickr).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/16318890626_c794af4f1c_b-798x531.jpg)
Scientists say they have discovered large flows of pollution are reaching the Great Barrier Reef after soaking into underground water, a finding that could have implications for policymakers focused on cutting pollution from river catchments. The new research claims almost a third of dissolved inorganic nitrogen and two-thirds of dissolved inorganic phosphorus in the reef’s waters are coming from underground sources – an amount previously undocumented…
The way of water: Can anything be done to save our disappearing beaches? – WA Today
![Freemantle Beach, Australia (by Graeme Churchard CC BY 2.0 via Fliickr).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/5521569945_99b36d1465_c-1-798x530.jpg)
South Beach is a far cry from those wide-open ultra-Aussie surf destinations such as Scarborough and Trigg (the bit in front of Wilson Park is barely a kilometre long)…So you can imagine my shock when I recently popped down for a jog and a swim to discover that a good chunk of the white stuff that was so fundamental to my experience of Fremantle had disappeared…
Great Barrier Reef records highest hard coral cover in 36 years – Reef Builders
![The Great Barrier Reef, Australia (photo by Kyle Taylor CC BY 2.0 via Flickr).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/4874419375_b2253299b2_c-798x599.jpg)
The Australian Institute of Marine Science has reported a 36-year coral coverage high across the Great Barrier Reef for 2021/22…
A 7m wall has gone up on a Sydney beach: are we destroying public space to save private property? – The Guardian
![Coastal Erosion along Old Bar Beach, Australia (photo © SAF)](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/old-bar-beach-erosion.jpg)
“We really didn’t want to build a wall,” says Bob Orth.
But Orth is one of 10 residents of Collaroy, on Sydney’s northern beaches, who have each paid $300,000 to do just that.
And not just any wall. Construction began in December on a seven-metre-high sheer concrete structure below the residents’ properties, which overlook a beach that has become notorious for dramatic erosion every time there is a big storm.