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

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

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.

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

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

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

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, ...

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 ...