During a new Sir David Attenborough documentary set to be released globally on Friday evening, one of Australia's leading coral reef experts is seen breaking down in tears at the Great Barrier Reef's demise.Prof Terry Hughes is talking about three coral bleaching monitoring missions that he went on in 2016, 2017, and 2020 when he…
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Five years ago, the Great Barrier Reef was hit by its worst recorded bleaching to date, with media outlets around the world rushing to tell the public why that was putting the World Heritage site at risk.
The documentary, fronted by Attenborough, is centred on the research of Swedish scientist Prof Johan Rockström, whose work looks at the concept of tipping points and boundaries in different systems around the planet, such as the polar regions, the Earth’s biodiversity and the climate.
Netflix says the film documents “the most important scientific discovery of our time – that humanity has pushed Earth beyond the boundaries that have kept Earth stable for 10,000 years, since the dawn of civilisation.”
Hughes has become a high-profile scientific figure in Australia for his research on the complex impacts of global heating on the world’s biggest reef system and his monitoring flights to document mass bleaching.
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Weatherford city council members took steps forward Tuesday night on the first phase of the city s Weatherford Bypass Project, approving an agreement with Kimley-Horn Associates, Inc. for engineering services.
The agreement is two-fold, Director of Capital Projects Terry Hughes explained, with the main agreement coming out to $1.58 million. This includes base services developed around delivering a final design using an environmental document known as a categorical exclusion, or CE, Hughes said.
The second portion of additional services, if authorized, comes out to $195,000, and would include an environmental assessment, in the event the city would be unable to use the CE.