Ancient Temperature Triggers Reveal How It All Began It demonstrates that the onset of reef growth on the outer shelf was ...

STORY: Australia's Great Barrier Reef has suffered the largest decline in coral cover in two of its three regions over the last year. That’s according to a new report released by the Australian ...

Parts of Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef, famed for its stunning colors and biodiversity, suffered the biggest decline of coral on record last year after a marine heatwave bleached vast swathes ...

The widespread heat stress on the Great Barrier Reef, causing huge bleaching events among the corals, has been revealed in new satellite images. A map, shared by the NASA Earth Observatory, uses ...

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 ...

The most sophisticated modeling to date forecasts that, under the current global emissions pathway, the Great Barrier Reef ...

The Great Barrier Reef, which stretches over 1,400 miles along Australia’s east coast, is bigger than the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Belgium, and the Netherlands combined. Given its size, there are ...

The southern Great Barrier Reef is suffering from extensive coral bleaching due to heat stress, the reef’s managers said Wednesday, raising fears that a seventh mass bleaching event could be unfolding ...

A species of destructive starfish is being culled by researchers to save the Great Barrier Reef. Crown-of-thorns starfish can decimate coral reefs, munching through up to 108 square feet of coral ...