In your lifetime, if you make it to Australia, there is absolutely one place you should visit – the Great Barrier Reef.

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

Reef Magic’s tour departs at 9 a.m daily and starts at AU$299 (about $187) for adults and AU$149 (about $93) for children ages 4 and 14. For more help planning your trip to the Great Barrier ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is all about superlatives. It is the world’s largest coral reef, extending some 1,400 miles off the east coast of Australia and covering some 133,000 square miles.

Hi-tech drones equipped with night vision and AI tracking are some of the new technologies being trialled to stop poachers flouting marine park conservation rules.

I spent one night on the Rum Runner, a 65-foot sailboat that ports in Cairns, Australia. The boat calls itself a floating hostel that sleeps 18 people on trips to the Great Barrier Reef.

Since 1966, the Great Barrier Reef—from Lizard Island to Cairns—has hosted thousands of anglers looking for their grander black. Before the early 1960s, no one really knew about it—few local fishermen ...

FILE PHOTO: Assorted reef fish swim above a finger coral colony as it grows on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Cairns, Australia 33,259 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you ...

This photo supplied by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) shows diseased corals at a reef in the Cairns/Cooktown on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, April 27, 2017. N.

Because Cairns is the tourist hub of Queensland (and a convenient point from which to explore the reef), many Great Barrier Reef visitors fly into Cairns Airport (CNS).