Artificial light can wake sleeping fish and attract predators, changing nighttime coral reef communities, according to new research using novel underwater infrared cameras. Artificial light can ...

An artificial reef installed at a WA dog beach to reduce coastal erosion by weakening wave energy has led to a 20 per cent reduction in wave force. Early results show the reef has also fostered ...

Researchers analyzed the yields of nine fisheries dependent on Australia's Great Barrier Reef from 2016 to 2020. ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a rare example of 'great fish ...

A 40-year-old man has died after being attacked by a shark on the edge of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, local police said. Luke Walford, a youth pastor, had been spearfishing with his family ...

Another 57-year-old woman was attacked while snorkelling on a reef about 200km off Mackay's coast at 4.30pm onOctober 30. She sustained two 30cm bite wounds to her calf and it took more than ...

Coral reef ecosystems are generally high in biodiversity, most often found in shallow tropical seas, and are threatened by factors including ocean acidification, global warming and sea level rise.

To further strengthen the CNN branches, we introduce a knowledge distillation strategy that steadily feeds back information from the hybrid branch to CNN branches, mitigating overfitting risks caused ...

Using SECORE’s approach, we fertilize the eggs in the lab, culture the larvae for a few days and then settle them onto specialized tiles that can be planted back out on the reef. Collecting these ...

A weakening trough and associated east to southeasterly wind surge over the Cairns waters will push across the Peninsula waters from today. A weak ridge will extend over the North Queensland waters in ...

Coral bleaching matters because once these corals die, reefs rarely come back. With few corals surviving, they struggle to reproduce, and entire reef ecosystems, on which people and wildlife depend, ...