Last year, a fatal heat wave hit southern sections of Australia’s 1,400-mile Great Barrier Reef — threatening it with major fatalities for the first time. In 2016, a mass bleaching event hit ...

Researchers from several key agencies have confirmed the Great Barrier Reef has experienced its sixth widespread coral bleaching event in nine years. The latest Summer Snapshot, by the Great ...

Great Barrier Reef bleaching. Image: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Australian Institute of Marine Science, and CSIRO, 2025, Reef Snapshot: Summer 2024–25, Reef Authority, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Great Barrier Reef is suffering its second bleaching event in as many years, with the marine park authority reporting corals in ...

SYDNEY, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Australian scientists have reported the sixth mass coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef since 2016. In a report published on Wednesday night, scientists ...

Australia's famed Great Barrier Reef is teetering on the brink, suffering one of the most severe coral bleaching events on record (AFP via Getty Images) Coral reefs, often called the ...

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 ...

As long as people have been visiting the Great Barrier ... some coral bleaching," John says. "So we really try to get the balance where we show people the best, and why the reef should be ...

Scientists further describe a "graveyard of dead corals" in Australia's northern Great Barrier Reef following 2024's bleaching event that caused about 40% of its coral life to die in one spot to ...