Scientists from the University of Technology Sydney are searching for “super corals,” species that are naturally more ...

The Great Barrier Reef – the world's largest reef system that's "one of the richest and most complex natural ecosystems on Earth" – is once again undergoing a mass coral bleaching event.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef should be listed as a world heritage site that is "in danger", a UN panel recommended on Tuesday, saying the world's biggest coral reef ecosystem was significantly ...

New research has revealed alarming coral mortality rates of 92% after last year's bleaching event at Lizard Island on ...

In 2016 and 2017, marine heat waves caused by climate change resulted in mass bleaching, which killed about half of the corals on the Great Barrier Reef, along with many others around the world.

A survey found that between August 2021 and May 2022, average hard coral cover in two areas of the Great Barrier Reef increased by about one-third.

On the Great Barrier Reef, the relatively rapid succession of such extreme bleaching events is a clear sign of human-caused climate change, said David Wachenfeld, research program director at the ...