To say that the Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef ... rising sea temperatures are causing mass coral bleaching—episodes in which corals lose their color after expelling ...

Now Ningaloo Reef is bleaching in earnest. The Great Barrier Reef is bleaching too in the waters from Cape York down to Townsville. This appears to be the first time these two World Heritage ...

Western Australia’s Ningaloo has experienced the highest level of heat stress ever recorded, while coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef has been detected from Townsville to Cape York ...

In the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, about one in 11 reefs (nine per cent) had “very high” levels of bleaching, although none had prevalence that was marked “extremely high”. Coral ...