For decades, the Great Barrier Reef has enjoyed World Heritage Status and been synonymous with diving, tourism and with Australia. But in June of this year, UNESCO threatened to downgrade the Great ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has suffered another mass bleaching event - the third in just five years. Warmer sea temperatures - particularly in February - are feared to have caused huge coral ...

Soft corals top hard ones, algae and sponges paint the rocks ... Time and tides and a planet in eternal flux brought the Great Barrier Reef into being millions of years ago, wore it down, and ...

The Great Barrier Reef is sometimes described as the Earth’s largest living organism, but it is much more than that. There is nothing else on the planet like it: more than 3000 individual reefs ...