As ocean temperatures in the Great Barrier Reef reach their hottest for 400 years, there is new hope that it might be possible to adapt coral to make it climate resilient. As the quality of the ...

Hard coral cover across the Great Barrier Reef has declined substantially from the high levels of recent years back to near long-term average levels, underscoring a new level of volatility, according ...

The Great Barrier Reef – the world's largest reef system that's "one of the richest and most complex natural ecosystems on Earth" – is once again undergoing a mass coral bleaching event.

The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is alive and thriving as one of the 7 Wonders of the World. Dr. Eric Fisher, a marine biologist and reef conservation expert, and Mark Olsen, Tourism Tropical ...

The fog was neither subtle nor slow. It did not emanate gradually from the sea or roll gently down the slopes of the nearby ...

Since the program’s inception in 2018, over 125,000 corals have been outplanted across the Great Barrier Reef — off Cairns, Port Douglas and the Whitsundays — with a survival rate of 85%.

There have been several outbreaks of these starfish on the Great Barrier Reef, each lasting between 10 and 15 years, with the first occurring in the 1960s. These starfish are considered a major ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is suffering a mass bleaching event, the reef’s marine park authority confirmed Friday, the result of soaring ocean temperatures caused by the global climate ...

Waters surrounding the Great Barrier Reef are the hottest in centuries, research shows. If the trend continues, soaring temperatures could lead to the reef’s “demise.” ...

When the Great Barrier Reef experienced back-to-back bleaching in 2016 and 2017, Dr. Henley and colleagues wondered what kind of temperatures it had weathered before records were kept.