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

The whale shark — a shark, not a whale — is the largest fish in the world, roughly the length of a city bus. Whale sharks ...

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.

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

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

Scientists from the University of Technology Sydney are searching for “super corals,” species that are naturally more ...

The hard coral cover on the reef has declined largely due to heat stress from climate change. This heat stress has sparked ...

Australia's famed Great Barrier Reef has suffered its most widespread coral bleaching on record, according to a government ...

Reefs have been battered by cyclones and starfish that eat coral, but heat stress driven by climate change is the main cause ...

The damage caused in recent years to the Great Barrier Reef by ocean heat waves has compromised the massive reef’s ability to recover, and climate change could make the problem more severe in ...

Tourism on the Great Barrier Reef employs 70,000 people, and generates $5 billion (Australian) in income each year, the Centre said in a statement. The good news is that much of the coral survived ...