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AIMS Index values marine industries at $38 Billion and rising fast
Australian marine industries have a huge and rapidly growing role in Australia’s economy, a role largely unrecognised until now ... [ read more ]
New AIMS facility will help scientists show why life is a symbiosis
AIMS is embarking on a scientific quest to answer fundamental questions about the unseen world of marine microbes, focused on the symbiotic relationships between the smallest creatures known and their hosts ...  [ read more ]
Urgent action on international coral reef crisis
Coral reef scientists and policy makers from the world’s most prominent coral reef nations met in Townsville in early November to develop urgent action plans to rescue the world’s richest centre of marine biodiversity from gradual decline ...  [ read more ]
Broad-ranging book shows how coral bleaching is shaping the future of coral reefs
The most comprehensive survey to date of the coral bleaching phenomenon and its effect on the future of the world’s coral reefs has been published in a book edited by two senior AIMS scientists. ...  [ read more ].
Fishy future written in the genes
The roadmap to the future of the gorgeously-decorated fish which throng Australia’s coral reefs and help earn the nation $5 billion a year from tourism may well be written in their .... [ read more ]
   
In brief...
The 2,000-strong community of Census of Marine Life scientists from 82 nations has released a report showing major progress towards the first ever marine life census. The complete Census document will be released in October 2010.. [ read more ]
 

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