The recent discovery of five new coral species around the Indo-Pacific could have critical implications for reef management.

By Edward Carver The whale shark — a shark, not a whale — is the largest fish in the world, roughly the length of a city bus. Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus), which live in warm seas, are known as ...

A tour guide caught an amazing and incredibly rare sight while sailing along Australia's Great Barrier Reef. As the Cairns ...

Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef suffered its biggest ever decline last year after a marine heatwave bleached vast swathes of hard coral, a new report has found.

Australian authorities say the Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral in four decades.

Australia's famed Great Barrier Reef has suffered its most widespread coral bleaching on record, according to a government ...

Reefs have been battered by cyclones and starfish that eat coral, but heat stress driven by climate change is the main cause ...

Snorkelling off the Frankston Islands, within the Cairns Great Barrier Reef region, a reef guide spotted the well-camouflaged ...

The Great Barrier Reef has recorded its largest annual coral loss in nearly four decades, driven by climate change and mass ...

"The Great Barrier Reef is such a beautiful, iconic place, it's really, really worth fighting for. And if we can give it a ...

The Great Barrier Reef has been declared dead by scientists at 25 million years old — bringing an end to the colorful life of the world’s largest single structure of living organisms.