So, how exactly did we get here? And can it be reversed? Narrator: The Great Barrier Reef is big. So big, in fact, that you can see it from space. David Wachenfeld: It's important for people to ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has been hit by a major bleaching event affecting 73% of the iconic ecosystem, according to a new Australian government report. The big picture: A "perfect storm of ...

Veron says he hates to predict the future for the Great Barrier Reef, because it "can't be anything ... help the corals, after the big carbon dioxide increase is over and it starts to come down ...

Following the tabling of plan to protect more than 11 million hectares of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park two days ago, the Australian and Queensland governments have released a plan to reduce ...

Mass coral mortality is the worst it has ever been. Some experts say neither side of politics is prepared to reckon with ...

But big does not mean indestructible. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, which has jurisdiction over much of the reef, has taken steps to control water pollution, conserve coastal ...

"In the Great Barrier Reef, corals set the patterns of life from ... during periods of heavy volcanic activity was likely a big player in coral decimation, notably the most recent mass extinction ...

A new study has found that nearly half the coral trout caught on the Great Barrier Reef come from marine reserves—where ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is home to a tremendous array of endangered species ... The only profiteers from this project are its Big Oil proponents — ConocoPhillips and the Chinese state-run oil ...

A big mangrove crab low on a trunk ... Its Australian cousin, the Great Barrier Reef, is great indeed at 1,429 miles long—the biggest structure created by living things on this planet.

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