Guardian - 20 January 2018, 21:00 (+ 2291 days 2 hours and 19 minutes) Earth
One $2.2m experiment involves giant fans to cool water down, despite government’s own advisers highlighting risksMillions of dollars of commonwealth money is being handed to tourism-linked groups for Great Barrier Reef protection, despite official advice recommending against the projects, or repeatedly finding them to be failing.The contracts include millions of dollars for tourism operators to cull out-of-control coral-eating crown of thorns starfish. Funds continue to be distributed, despite researchers employed to evaluate the program repeatedly finding it to have failed, and potentially having made the problem worse. Continue reading...