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 ...

In the Great Barrier Reef, the average sea surface temperature has increased by more than 0.8 degrees Celsius since 1880, the authority says, with the warmest years happening in the past two decades.

A drop in shipping emissions has caused a surge in warming at the Great Barrier Reef, fuelling calls for drastic actions such as marine cloud brightening to lower the risk of coral bleaching ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is suffering a mass bleaching event, the reef’s marine park authority confirmed Friday, the result of soaring ocean temperatures caused by the global climate ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Coral bleaching is evident across 73 percent of the famed marine park, as abnormally high ocean temperatures propel the world’s fourth mass bleaching event.

Geological time capsule highlights Great Barrier Reef's resilience A combination of stressors, not sea levels alone, cause the demise of reefs Date: June 2, 2025 Source: University of Sydney ...

This is far from the only bleaching event that has occurred in the Great Barrier Reef. Other mass bleaching events have been recorded in 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2022.