Australia’s Great Barrier Reef faces critical danger from back-to-back bouts of extreme ocean heat. Ocean heat in the Coral Sea is at its highest in four centuries, scientists report in the Aug. 8 ...

The sea surface temperature around the Great Barrier Reef this year is the hottest it has ever been in 400 years, posing huge threats to the coral reef ecosystem in the area. When you purchase through ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef faces the risk of near-annual coral bleaching with temperatures in surrounding waters found to have reached the highest in at least 400 years. The Coral Sea has seen ...

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 ...

New research adds to our understanding of how rapidly rising sea levels due to climate change foreshadow the end of the Great Barrier Reef as we know it. The findings suggest the reef can withstand ...

The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is alive and thriving as one of the 7 Wonders of the World. Dr. Eric Fisher, a marine biologist and reef conservation expert, and Mark Olsen, Tourism Tropical North ...

This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef can’t catch ...

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Professor Jody Webster examines a fossil coral reef core from the Great Barrier Reef soon after it is brought on deck. New research led by the University of Sydney adds to our understanding of how ...