The Great Barrier Reef is a marvel of natural engineering, stretching over 2,300 kilometers along the northeastern coast of ...

Australian scientists said Wednesday that they had found a widespread decrease in coral cover in southern parts of the Great Barrier Reef. Researchers have just completed a routine annual ...

Often dubbed the world's largest living structure, the Great Barrier Reef is a 1,400-mile expanse of tropical corals that house a stunning array of biodiversity. But repeated mass bleaching events ...

Parts of the Great Barrer Reef have suffered the highest coral mortality on record, Australian research showed Tuesday, with scientists fearing the rest of it has suffered a similar fate.

The Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia is the largest living coral reef system on Earth, about 300 times larger than the next largest reef, found off the coast of Belize.

The finding, from a new study, provides hope corals could survive high-carbon-emission scenarios but comes with several caveats. Amid growing concerns the Great Barrier Reef is reaching an ...

Some of the best stargazing spots in the world can be found at the Great Barrier Reef. While camping on an isolated island ...

Climate change-driven heat and cyclones have caused a large chunk of the Great Barrier Reef to drop in health, with some areas reporting the largest coral decline in 39 years. Preliminary results ...

Recent mass bleaching, two cyclones, and flooding have left large portions of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef with “significant coral mortality,” new data from the Australian Institute of ...

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In one northern section of the reef, about a third of hard coral had died, the "largest annual decline" in 39 years of government monitoring, the agency said. Often dubbed the world's largest living ...