'Now or never' to save Barrier Reef: scientists

Australia's Great Barrier Reef could be beyond saving in five years without "now or never" funding to improve water quality as climate change ravages the World Heritage-listed site, scientists warned Thursday. The world's biggest coral reef ecosystem is under pressure from not only climate change, but farming run-off, development and the coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish. "The current management regime for catchment pollutant run-off and climate change is clearly inadequate to prevent furthe