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

Striking historic drawings of the Great Barrier Reef found in an old, waterlogged book capture the spell this underwater ...

The Great Barrier Reef, one of the most stunning natural wonders of the world, is facing its greatest challenge yet—an ...

Laboratory experiments confirm the accuracy of numerical modeling in simulating coral bleaching, according to new research ...

By contrast, corals on the Great Barrier Reef tend to spawn between October and December. For the reef to recover quickly, it needs yearly influxes of new coral recruits. But if corals are ...

Not many people visit Lady Elliot Island, at the Great Barrier Reef's southern tip. But a lot of people are trying to protect ...

Western Australia’s Ningaloo has experienced the highest level of heat stress ever recorded, while coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef has been detected from Townsville to Cape York ...

To say that the Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef may be understating things; the Australian government notes that it is "the only living organic collective visible from Earth's ...

In the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, about one in 11 reefs (nine per cent) had “very high” levels of bleaching, although none had prevalence that was marked “extremely high”. Coral ...