Recent mass bleaching, two cyclones and flooding have left parts of the Great Barrier Reef with “significant coral mortality” ...

The Great Barrier Reef experienced its sixth widespread coral bleaching event in nine years, the latest “summer snapshot” has ...

Australia's two largest coral reefs, the Great Barrier Reef and Ningaloo Reef, are affected by coral bleaching at the same time. The unusually high water temperatures are severely affecting sensitive ...

To say that the Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef may be understating things; the Australian government notes that it is "the only living organic collective visible from Earth's ...

In past bleaching events on the Great Barrier ... areas of the reef in the fifth mass bleaching event in eight years. We're shocked and saddened by images of stark white coral skeletons.

The one thing no one ever tells you about the Great Barrier Reef is how noisy it is. As soon as I duck my head under the impossibly clear turquoise water and get a glimpse of its vibrant inhabitants, ...

The Great Barrier Reef is a site of remarkable variety and beauty on the north-east coast of Australia. It contains the world’s largest collection of coral reefs, with 400 types of coral, 1,500 ...

Bleaching of the coral in the Great Barrier Reef, north-east Australia which is caused by global warming The Great Barrier Reef became a recognised area of ecological importance when it was ...

By contrast, corals on the Great Barrier Reef tend to spawn between October and December. For the reef to recover quickly, it needs yearly influxes of new coral recruits. But if corals are ...

“The only solution is for the whole world to get together and stop polluting the earth with carbon emissions,” says Hoggett. ...

One of the seven wonders of the natural world, the Great Barrier Reef lies in the clear blue waters off the northeast coast of Australia. Spanning 14 degrees of latitude, this complex reef system is ...

The Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia is the largest coral reef in the world ... Some regions of the reef were already dead before researchers could arrive so divers immediately ...