Australia’s marine scientists recently released their annual audit of the Great Barrier Reef, and it contains news you almost ...

The southern Great Barrier Reef is suffering from extensive coral bleaching due to heat stress, the reef’s managers said Wednesday, raising fears that a seventh mass bleaching event could be unfolding ...

The work of science is never finished. We thought a reef discovered in the '60s was dead, but when we took a closer look, we ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A school of fish swim through a break in the coral along the Great Barrier Reef on August 10, 2022, on Hastings Reef, Australia. / ...

Crown-of-thorns starfish can devastate reefs in outbreaks, but new research suggests small populations may help maintain ...

Great Barrier Reef stretches along the north?east coast of Australia as a continuous marine region of coral reefs, islands ...

A team of marine scientists from the University of Sydney has published the first peer-reviewed study documenting the devastating coral bleaching events that occurred on the southern Great Barrier ...

A mother-daughter team of citizen scientists has discovered a single coral colony on the Great Barrier Reef stretching more than 100 meters, making it the longest ever documented. The finding helps ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades of record-keeping, Australian authorities say. But ...

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. Officials ...