There are many different types of coral found in the Great Barrier Reef, including staghorn coral, brain coral, and mushroom coral National Geographic Society. The coral provides habitat for a ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is undergoing its third mass bleaching episode, which began in 2016. These events, which are spurred by warming waters, pose a dire threat to coral life, researchers ...

Record ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaching “catastrophic” levels ...

The research team meticulously tracked the health of 462 coral colonies at the University of Sydney's Great Barrier Reef research station at One Tree Island over a period of 161 days. The results ...

"For most years, say five out of seven years, there will be now mass bleaching on coral reefs around the world," he says. Veron says he hates to predict the future for the Great Barrier Reef ...

Marine scientists from the University of Sydney yesterday have published the first peer-reviewed study documenting “catastrophic” coral bleaching events at the southern Great Barrier Reef in ...

A new study has found that nearly half the coral trout caught on the Great Barrier Reef come from marine reserves—where protected fish grow larger and produce far more offspring. The research ...

George Roff - a marine ecologist at CSIRO - has been documenting the transformation of coral in the Great Barrier Reef. “We were fortunate enough to be there in December right when the mass ...