The most sophisticated modeling to date forecasts that, under the current global emissions pathway, the Great Barrier Reef ...

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. US ...

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 ...

Australia needs to respond to a U.N. warning on the threat to its iconic Great Barrier Reef with bolder climate policies that ...

The central and northern stretches of Australia's Great Barrier Reef are showing the highest coral cover seen in 36 years, showing that the fragile UNESCO World Heritage site could still recover from ...

A new study published inThe American Naturalist sheds light on the peculiar phenomenon of “grazing halos”—ghostly, vegetation-free rings surrounding coral reefs that are clearly visible in satellite ...

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 ...

From August 2021 to May 2022, the central and northern regions of the Great Barrier Reef had hard coral cover levels of 33% and 36%, respectively. Coral cover decreased by 4% in the southern region, ...

The Great Barrier Reef seen here in this NASA satellite image. Stretching along more than 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) of Australia's eastern coast is one of the world's most famous natural wonders ...