Sunscreen has only been around a century but pharmacy shelves are now lined with an assortment of sunscreens with a variety of active ingredients aimed to please everyone from the outdoorsma… Read More
Coronavirus figures for Saturday
Australian states and territories recorded the deaths of 25 people with Covid on Saturday.
We will continue to add to this post as numbers are announced.
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Unusually well-preserved reef corals from the Geological and Paleontological Collection at Leipzig University hold a great secret: They allow us to travel far into the past and reconstruct c… Read More
The Great Barrier Reef has seen better days, after a one-two punch of coral bleaching events struck it in 2016 and 2017. Warming sea temperatures have been pegged as the culprit, but that al… Read More
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the leading international body assessing climate change, predicts that sea levels would increase by 1.35 metres by 2100, drowning small… Read More
Although the outlook may be bleak for the world's coral reefs overall, there might at least be hope for little bits of them. Scientists at the Great Barrier Reef Foundation have announced de… Read More
If you've ever had the bad luck of scraping your skin against coral in the ocean, you know how painful it can be. That's because in addition to its hard and spiny architecture, corals also c… Read More
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Yes I ate guinea pig with my brother in Ecuador. I crossed into Peru a few days ago (my 30t… Read More
With its calcium carbonate structure, reef-forming coralline algae has an ecological function very similar to that of coral. And, as is the case with coral reefs in general, the algae is cur… Read More
SKYathon, SKY Cable Corporation’s annual beach run, returns to Boracay on April 22 for its 8th year of raising awareness and funds to sustain the island’s excellent natural… Read More
It's the 10th consecutive month to set a new record, and it puts 2016 on course to set a third straight annual record. Photo / NASAHumanity's experiment with planetary warming has reached a… Read More