Travel 101: Australia&#39;s Great Barrier Reef
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What: The Great Barrier Reef is actually a maze of about 3,000 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching along Australia&#39;s east coast, from north of Brisbane to Papua New Guinea.
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An earthquake measured 8.1 on the Richter Scale, the world&#39;s biggest in almost four years, was registered near Macquarie Island of Australia early Friday morning.
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Travel: Simon Reeve discovers one of the world's great train journeys in Madagascar
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef could be dead within decades because of global warming, a leaked IPCC report says.
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The world&#39;s biggest earthquake in almost four years, measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale, struck off the coast of Australia&#39;s southern island state of Tasmania early on Friday, but caused no damage or injury.
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Science & environment: Giant sea creatures have been found by Australian scientists in the deep waters around Antarctica
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By Geoffrey Lean  Take one of the world's greatest waste problems, and turn it into one of the planet's most precious habitats. It seems a classic green win-win. But dumping used tyres in the sea to make artificial coral reefs has proved to be an environmental disaster.
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Two decades ago, Greg Marshall was diving off the reefs of Belize studying queen conchs when he noticed a reef shark passing by with a remora clinging to its belly. The thought occurred to Marshall, who was then a graduate student in marine environmental science, that if a camera could be attached...
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Marine researchers have discovered the deepest coral reef ever found in the United States in about 250 feet of water off the Florida coast.
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THE Malaysian Nature Society Pathfinders group is organising a nature appreciation overland journey to East Java (Mt Bromo) in Bali. The treks are rated grade 1-2 (easy to moderate).
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Travel: Travelling to the UK's furthest flung islands can be expensive, but as Louise Tickle discovered, plan ahead and it can be done for less than you think.
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A FORTNIGHT ago University of Wollongong scientist Bert Roberts was on the Indonesian island of Flores with stegodon expert Gert van den Bergh.
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"The Complete Stories" (Pantheon Books, 528 pages, $27.50), by David Malouf: Australia is often a backpacker's destination of choice when otherwise lost. Its Ayers Rock and glittering Sydney are so far away and seasonally upside down that it must be the place to find a sense of purpose in the unsure time between adolescence and age.
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Scientists are embarking on a project which will explore how global warming is devastating one of the world's most diverse ecosystems, coral reefs.
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Rising levels of greenhouse gases may not be quite as bad for coral reefs as was previously thought. A team of Australian scientists say that the damage done by increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the
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Just below the sea's surface off Florida's southeast coast lies a virtual gold mine. It's not sunken treasure or some Spanish galleon but instead nature's bounty, rows of coral reefs that generate billions of dollars a year in tourism spending.
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Even coral reefs thought to be pristine are facing challenges, researchers said Thursday launching the International Year of the Reef. The year of the reef is a "campaign to highlight the importance of coral reef ecosystems and to motivate people to protect them," Conrad Lautenbacher, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said at a briefing.