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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Some might argue that Australia’s beloved Great Barrier Reef is a priceless natural wonder, but economists have just placed a number on its monetary value. Accounting for factors like the reef ...