Not as much of the reef is covered in coral as you might think. The name may be misleading you. Within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, coral covers only about 6 or 7 percent of the territory.

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.

In fact, the Great Barrier Reef is the warmest it has been for at least 400 years. Unless humanity takes dramatic action to halt climate change, we will lose the beautiful, complex reefs that have ...

Coral in the Great Barrier Reef is resilient, and has been able to recover from past disturbances, the Institute said. But the stressors impacting it have not gone away for long.

This is coral spawning season – a time when the Great Barrier Reef creates the next generation of corals. In fact, as some scientists explain it, it’s when the whole reef has sex.

In the Great Barrier Reef, larger fish inside no-take areas produce disproportionately more eggs and larvae than in areas that are fished. Besides their contribution to sustaining fisheries, no-take ...

If temperatures warm by 3°C, the researchers found that the Great Barrier Reef could surpass 30°C. This has already been established as an important threshold for corals as this is the ...

Further, the researchers say that this region of the Great Barrier Reef experienced massive death rates, with more than 44 percent of the bleached coral dying off by July.

Scientists working on Australia's Great Barrier Reef have successfully trialled a new method for freezing and storing coral larvae they say could eventually help rewild reefs threatened by climate ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is all about superlatives. It is the world’s largest coral reef, extending some 1,400 miles off the east coast of Australia and covering some 133,000 square miles.

When the Great Barrier Reef experienced back-to-back bleaching in 2016 and 2017, Dr. Henley and colleagues wondered what kind of temperatures it had weathered before records were kept.