Climate change and the health of the Great Barrier Reef is front and centre ahead of the Federal Election with authorities ...

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Climate change-fuelled ocean warming and floods have been bleaching corals in the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef.

The Great Barrier Reef experienced its sixth widespread coral bleaching event in nine years, the latest “summer snapshot” has ...

Australian scientists have reported the sixth mass coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef since 2016. In a ...

The Great Barrier Reef has suffered its 6th mass bleaching event in the last 9 years. Only the second time mass bleaching has occurred in consecutive ...

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

To say that the Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef may be understating ... The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, which has jurisdiction over much of the reef, has taken ...

Staghorn coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef during a mass bleaching event. (Source: Getty Images) In a joint media statement, the Australian Marine Conservation Society and the Biodiversity ...

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 ...