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

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

And while this doesn't mean that the Great Barrier Reef will cease to exist in our lifetime, global warming means the problem will probably keep getting worse. In other words, go now. Here's why: ...

Perhaps you’ve heard that the epic, 1,400-mile-long Great Barrier Reef in Australia has died. Perhaps you have read its obituary by writer Rowan Jacobsen on the website Outside Online.