Following the tabling of plan to protect more than 11 million hectares of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park two days ago, the Australian and Queensland governments have released a plan to reduce ...

A new study has found that nearly half the coral trout caught on the Great Barrier Reef come from marine reserves—where protected fish grow larger and produce far more offspring. The research, led by ...

It demonstrates that the onset of reef growth on the outer shelf was preceded by a rise in summer temperature from ~26° to ~28°C at around 700 thousand years ago (marine isotope stage 17). This ...

Daniela Ceccarelli works for the Australian Institute of Marine Science, a publicly funded research organisation that receives funding from the Australian government, state government departments, ...

We hit the Great Barrier Reef looking for something big — and found it. A giant lobster, buried deep in a remote lagoon, ...