The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority warns the prospect of Great Barrier’s Reef is very poor.

According to the 2019 Outlook Report, climate change is threatening the sea lives’ wellbeing and the reef’s value as a World Heritage Area is thus challenged.

Hong Kong protestors have marched outside US Consulate to urge the US to pass the Hong Kong Democratic and Human Rights Act.

The bill suggests deterrent for Chinese and Hong Kong officials suppressing democracy and human rights.

Meanwhile, the US government reminds citizens to take intense caution after Beijing launched a propaganda campaign stating that they are provoking unrest there.

Japan may have to dump radioactive Fukushima water into the Pacific Ocean due to the lack of room for storage, Japanese environment minister Yoshiaki Harada has said

More than 1M tonnes of contaminated water is held in almost 1,000 tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi site, but the utility has warned that it will run out of tank space by the summer of 2022.

Environmentalists point out the government is obliged to seek other environmental alternatives.

A Tasmanian farmer has been given an 11-month jail sentence for illegally importing garlic bulbs that could have put Australia’s agricultural sector at risk.

The farmer and former chair of the Australian Garlic Industry Association Letetia Anne Ware,  imported more than 2000 garlic bulbs from the US and Canada, instructing suppliers to falsely label the garlic as “gardening supplies.

Liberal MP Gladys Liu has refused to criticise China’s actions in the South China Sea, after revelations were made about her connections to Chinese Communist Party organisations.

The Chisholm MP refused to say whether or not China’s actions in the South China Sea were unlawful, despite the findings of an international tribunal in 2016.

Minister for Agricultural Industry Development and Fisheries Mark Furner has announced Primary producers suffering from the recent bushfire can apply for disaster recovery assistance.

Individual Disaster Stricken Property provides subsidies up to $5,000 and loans of up to $250,000 at a concessional interest rate.

For more information on applying you can visit daf.qld.gov.au or phone 13 25 23 for assistance.

Three Queensland schools will remain closed today, as bushfires continue to burn across South-East Queensland.

The Education Minister Grace Grace announced that the Beechmont and Numinbah Valley state schools as the Numinbah Valley Environmental Education Centre remain shut today, but that schools in the Stanthorpe region would reopen today.