Great Barrier Reef

Australia's Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek on Thursday blocked a proposed coal mine to protect the Great Barrier Reef.

The Unesco released its long-awaited report on the reef following a 10-day visit in March, calling for ambitious, rapid and sustained action to protect it

Environmentalists had cited these events to lobby against the coal mining projects in Australia and foreign banks had stopped financing these projects

Large sections of Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR) now have an unprecedented amount of coral, according to a new report published

Carmichael mine, located in Queensland state, has spanned environmental activists to Wall Street banks, insurers and investors.

The Great Barrier Reef in Australia, which is the largest reef system in the world, has lost more than half of its coral population in the past three decades, according to a new study

After a mass coral bleaching in 2016, the world's largest living structure is showing signs of a comeback.

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Deloitte study warns of massive economic fallout unless Australia take steps to protect it

Says the reefs affected last year have zero prospect of recovery

Warm seas around the reef killed some two-thirds of a 700 kilometre stretch of coral last year

It is estimated that 2/3rd of coral coverage died in a 700 km stretch of reef north of Port Douglas

Site was contaminated with hundreds of kilograms of paint particles tainted with the highly toxic anti-fouling agent tributyltin

The report said last year, about 3.5 million tourists, mostly Australians, visited areas along the reef