Australia’s Great Barrier Reef faces critical danger from back-to-back bouts of extreme ocean heat. Ocean heat in the Coral Sea is at its highest in four centuries, scientists report in the Aug. 8 ...

In the 20th century, global sea level rose faster than at any other time in the past 3,000 years. It's expected to rise even further by 2100, as human-induced climate change intensifies. In fact, some ...

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 ...

It demonstrates that the onset of reef growth on the outer shelf was preceded by a rise in summer temperature from ~26° to ~28°C at around 700 thousand years ago (marine isotope stage 17). This ...

In the 20th century, global sea level rose faster than at any other time in the past 3,000 years. It’s expected to rise even further by 2100, as human-induced climate change intensifies. In fact, some ...

As the early-morning sun rises over the Great Barrier Reef, its light pierces the turquoise waters of a shallow lagoon, bringing more than a dozen turtles to life. These waters that surround Lady ...

A green sea turtle near Lady Elliot Island. We were 10,000 feet above the Pacific, in a tiny Cessna that seemed like it should have been flying much lower than that, when the clouds cleared and Lady ...

WWF is conducting a survey of Fiji's Great Sea Reef, believed to be the third largest barrier reef in the world. Suva, Fiji - WWF is embarking on a two-week survey of the Cakaulevu Reef, off the ...

The Great Barrier Reef is vast and spectacular. But repeated mass coral bleachings, driven by high ocean temperatures, are threatening the survival of coral colonies which are the backbone of the reef ...

Accessible only by private boat or helicopter, InterContinental Hayman Great Barrier Reef lets guests bask in remote luxury and offers ultimate access to the unparalleled Great Barrier Reef. The ...

New research adds to our understanding of how rapidly rising sea levels due to climate change foreshadow the end of the Great Barrier Reef as we know it. The findings suggest the reef can withstand ...