A study has found concerning new evidence of long-term declines in coral reef fish around highly visited inshore islands of the Great Barrier Reef. Scientists surveyed reefs at 100 sites around the ...

Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the face of climate change and other human-caused pressures, a new study reveals Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in ...

Southern Great Barrier Reef in Queensland is a stunning but lesser-known corner of the Great Barrier Reef and close to ...

Parts of Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef, famed for its stunning colors and biodiversity, suffered the biggest decline of coral on record last year after a marine heatwave bleached vast swathes ...

This is especially worrying because these massive corals are normally quite resilient to heat stress. Even the strong are now struggling to survive.

Researchers are designing a global real-time monitoring system to help save the world's coral reefs from further decline, primarily due to bleaching caused by global warming. Australian researchers ...

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 ...

The Great Barrier Reef is now facing the hottest sea surface temperatures in four centuries, a new study finds. The rapid warming is causing massive coral bleaching which threatens the marine ...

Record ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaching “catastrophic” levels, a new study has ...