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Slipstream Brewing in Yeerongpilly has won a Queensland Day ‘All the Best’ award for the best pub.

Newstead parmis, Wilston beers: Brisbane sweeps ‘best of’ Queensland competition with seven winners

Voted for by the public for Queensland Day, the awards for offerings ranging from burgers to banh mi offered a few surprises.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt and Nick Dent

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Natural Bridge in Springbrook National Park

‘Tasmania, we’re coming for you’: 20-year tourism plan to make Queensland No.1

Destination 2045 includes nearly 50 new ecotourism projects to leverage the state’s natural assets.

  • Courtney Kruk
Coral bleaching threat level March to April.

Great Barrier Reef bleaching turns up heat in key Coalition seat

The second coral bleaching event in as many years is a major threat to the reef, and a wildcard for the major parties battling to win the Leichardt electorate.

  • Mike Foley
Scientists catch, tattoo and release cleaner wrasse fish on Lizard Island as part of a behavioural research project.

The scientists working to keep the ‘lights’ on at the Great Barrier Reef

Mass coral mortality is the worst it has ever been. Some experts say neither side of politics is prepared to reckon with reality.

  • Angus Dalton
Scientists are hoping to find a way to save the coral on the Great Barrier Reef from climate change.

This is the heartbeat of efforts to save a global icon. Is it too late?

A new generation of scientists are refusing to give up on the Great Barrier Reef.

  • Angus Dalton and Janie Barrett
A stop-motion video showcases the short commute to work for researchers on Lizard Island. Vision - Janie Barrett.
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Life on Lizard Island

A stop-motion video showcases the short commute to work for researchers on Lizard Island. Vision - Janie Barrett.

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The Great Barrier Reef is under threat.

To lose one tourism icon is a misfortune. To lose two? Carelessness

If we lose these two icons, the effect on tourism will ultimately be the least of our problems.

  • Lee Tulloch
Orange streams are increasingly common in northern Alaska.

Orange rivers, longer days: Nine ways our planet changed in its hottest year yet

Last year was the hottest year in history – on average more than 1.55 degrees higher than pre-industrial temperatures. The consequences range from the predicted to the utterly unexpected.

  • Nick O'Malley, Caitlin Fitzsimmons, Bianca Hall, Angus Dalton and Emma Young
Illustration: Simon Letch

It’s worse than any war or pandemic, so why are our leaders ignoring it?

Tell me I’m not dreaming: 2025 could be the year of bipartisan action on catastrophic climate change.

  • Malcolm Knox
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‘Worst fears realised’: One-third of corals dead on section of Barrier Reef

The results of the first surveys of bleached corals after a mass bleaching event show severe damage to a section of Australia’s great natural wonder.

  • Mike Foley

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