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

Australia's Great Barrier Reef, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the world's largest coral reef system, visible from space.

Next month, Australia’s Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Water, Mark Butler will decide whether to allow the expansion of a new port within the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, home ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Ocean temperatures in the Great Barrier Reef hit their highest level in 400 years over the past decade, according to researchers who warned that the reef likely won’t survive if planetary ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades of record-keeping, Australian authorities say. As ...

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

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 ...