Australia needs to respond to a U.N. warning on the threat to its iconic Great Barrier Reef with bolder climate policies that ...

A new study has found certain corals are more resilient in warmer waters, giving hope to the world-famous reef.

New research reveals the Great Barrier Reef is on track to be almost wiped out by the end of the century under current trajectories, but scientists say there is a narrow path to survival.

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 Ancient Foundation - A Story Spanning Hundreds of Millennia The Great Barrier Reef story begins much earlier than most ...

Ninety-one percent of reefs surveyed along the Great Barrier Reef in Australia were affected by coral bleaching to some degree during the summer of 2021-22, according to a government study.

This satellite image, acquired by the Landsat-8 satellite on 23 August 2013, takes us off the east coast of Australia where currents swirl in the water around corals. The Great Barrier Reef is the ...

Parts of the Great Barrier Reef have recorded their highest amount of coral cover since the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) began monitoring 36 years ago, according to a report published ...

Great Barrier Reef, north-east of Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia. VW Pics/Universal Images Group/Getty Images The study found the corals adapted to have a higher heat threshold if they had ...

CANBERRA, Australia — More than 90% of Great Barrier Reef coral surveyed this year was bleached in the fourth such mass event in seven years in the world's largest coral reef ecosystem, Australian ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has been hit by widespread coral bleaching repeatedly in recent years, where marine heat waves have turned large parts of the reef a ghostly white. Now, it looks like ...

Australia’s environment minister said Tuesday her government will lobby against UNESCO adding the Great Barrier Reef to a list of endangered World Heritage sites, arguing that criticisms of government ...