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Water Quality and the Reef: The Land-Sea Connection

Water Quality and the Reef: The Land-Sea Connection

What happens on Queensland's farms and in its rivers doesn't stay on land. The connection between water quality and reef health is one of the most important - and most politically contested - stories in GBR science.

Coral Spawning: The Night the Reef Comes Alive

Coral Spawning: The Night the Reef Comes Alive

Once a year, on nights following the November full moon, the Great Barrier Reef releases billions of gamete bundles in a synchronised mass spawning event that looks like a blizzard falling upward.