Using experimental "cloud brightening" technology and introducing heat-tolerant corals could help slow the Great Barrier Reef's climate change-fuelled decline by up to 20 years, Australian scientists said.
A promising new way of generating electricity from the ocean is being trialled in Bass Strait (channel separating Victoria, Australia, from the island of Tasmania).
MPV Everest has arrived in Hobart to commence work for the Australian Antarctic Program, resupplying Australian stations and changing over personnel this summer.
CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, has provided the first ever global estimate for microplastics on the seafloor, with results suggesting there are 14 million tonnes in the deep ocean.
Australian hydrogen could help Germany to decarbonise its energy supplies after the two governments agreed to assess the feasibility of developing a hydrogen supply chain.