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Australia’s famed Great Barrier Reef is suffering one of the most severe ... Now, she points to the fluorescent pink and blue coral. Despite its initial beauty, that means the coral is highly ...

One of the seven wonders of the natural world, the Great Barrier Reef lies in the clear blue waters off the northeast coast of Australia. Spanning 14 degrees of latitude, this complex reef system is ...

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

Lady Musgrave Island’s lagoon, part of a 3000-acre living reef, is nature’s own aquarium –­ pristine, wondrous, and now home ...

Teeming with life, a healthy coral reef is one of the noisiest places in the ocean ... Listen to an audio recording from Lady Elliot Island on the Great Barrier Reef (2.2MB) The ‘frying’ sound is ...

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 ...

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 ... the blue economy and the ...

“The only solution is for the whole world to get together and stop polluting the earth with carbon emissions,” says Hoggett. ...

The one thing no one ever tells you about the Great Barrier Reef is how noisy it is. As soon as I duck my head under the impossibly clear turquoise water and get a glimpse of its vibrant inhabitants, ...