Weekender reading (long form)
Samoa returns to the rugby league’s Pacific men’s Championships which will be played in three countries over four weekends starting in late October. A NRL statement says Samoa will return to the men’s Cup draw after they missed last year’s […]
Coral reefs off WA have been hit hard by a 2024-25 marine heatwave that was the longest, largest and most intense on record for the state, scientists and managers say. And temperature monitoring on site is revealing a hotter difference
Conservation groups are firing up over the Queensland government’s mixed messages on the Great Barrier Reef and coal mining in the wake of the AIMS report. And they now want a stop to new coal mines in the Mackay-Isaac-Whitsunday region.
Queensland is currently moving to accelerate new resource projects in August including a planned graphite mine for Croydon. It is asking companies to submit expressions of interest (EOI) in infill areas adjacent to current coal and gas projects. The government
Record hard coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef helped protect it amid a worsening bleaching crisis, the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) says. In its annual survey of the Reef, it found the largest annual decline in coral
