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.

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

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 ...

In 2015, UNESCO placed the Great Barrier Reef on its watchlist due to concerns about the Australian government’s handling of the site. The deteriorating Great Barrier Reef 25 photos ...

Ninety-one percent of reefs surveyed along the Great Barrier Reef in Australia were affected by coral bleaching to some degree during the summer of 2021-22, according to a government study.

The Great Barrier Reef has been declared dead by scientists investigating coral bleaching, which is caused by environment stress impacts. The warming of the oceans because of climate change causes ...

Australia has pledged more than 500 million Australian dollars ($379 miillion) to help preserve the Great Barrier Reef, in an attempt to help better protect the world heritage site from the ...