A tour guide caught an amazing and incredibly rare sight while sailing along Australia's Great Barrier Reef. As the Cairns ...

Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef suffered its biggest ever decline last year after a marine heatwave bleached vast swathes of hard coral, a new report has found.

The recent discovery of five new coral species around the Indo-Pacific could have critical implications for reef management.

Parts of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered the steepest annual decline in live coral cover following the worst bleaching events in nearly four decades. The Australian Institute of Marine Science, ...

By Edward Carver The whale shark — a shark, not a whale — is the largest fish in the world, roughly the length of a city bus. Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus), which live in warm seas, are known as ...

Australian authorities say the Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral in four decades.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has suffered the largest decline in coral cover in two of its three regions over the last year ...

"The Great Barrier Reef is such a beautiful, iconic place, it's really, really worth fighting for. And if we can give it a ...

A new report from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) confirms the deteriorating state of the Great Barrier ...

The Great Barrier Reef is home to 142 eco-certified operators, the highest number in Australia, making up 30 percent of Ecotourism Australia ’s eco-certified operators.