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

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

The whale shark — a shark, not a whale — is the largest fish in the world, roughly the length of a city bus. Whale sharks ...

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

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.

Cruise Whitsundays announced the appointment of Austal Australasia for the construction of a new 36-metre catamaran.

Parts of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered the steepest annual decline in live coral cover following the worst bleaching events in nearly four decades. The Australian Institute of Marine Science, ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has suffered the largest decline in coral cover in two of its three regions over the last year ...

Made up of 3,000 individual reefs, the Great Barrier Reef stretches from the tip of Queensland, down to Hervey Bay, just north of Brisbane. It's as big as Germany, covering 347,800 square ...

The Great Barrier Reef, in particular, has suffered many devastating mass bleaching events since 2015, caused by extremely warm ocean temperatures brought by the burning of fossil fuels such as ...

The damage caused in recent years to the Great Barrier Reef by ocean heat waves has compromised the massive reef’s ability to recover, and climate change could make the problem more severe in ...