National News New threat to turtles in Great Barrier Reef could pose same problems to local sea life A discovery made along the Great Barrier Reef is causing concern here in Hawaii.

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“We urgently need clarification from the Queensland Government on how many turtles are being found dead along the Great Barrier Reef coast”. Turtle hospitals in Townsville, Queensland are being ...

WASHINGTON — Video just made available by the Australian government shows how researchers at the Great Barrier Reef's Raine Island captured breathtaking footage of a massive bale of turtles ...

The Great Barrier Reef is home to an incredible amount of biodiversity, with over 9,000 known species of marine life National Geographic Society. However, there are likely many more species that ...

A new study reveals increasing temperatures are turning green turtle populations almost completely female in the northern Great Barrier Reef. The Current Biology paper says the northern GBR population ...

The Great Barrier Reef just experienced its worst summer on record, and the US-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced last month that the world is undergoing a rare ...

Over 99 per cent of green turtles born on beaches in the northern Great Barrier Reef are now female due to nest overheating, but cooling their nests with seawater may help to rebalance the sex ratio ...

Rising temperatures at Australia's Great Barrier Reef are causing more green turtles to be born female, which could lead to the species dying out, a new scientific study has found.

The reef is home to over 1500 tropical fish species, 400 types of coral, more than 200 species of bird, 5000 species of mollusc, 500 species of seaweed and six species of sea turtle.