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Since 1966, the Great Barrier Reef—from Lizard Island to Cairns—has hosted thousands of anglers looking for their grander black. Before the early 1960s, no one really knew about it—few local fishermen ...
A survey found that between August 2021 and May 2022, average hard coral cover in two areas of the Great Barrier Reef increased by about one-third.
For the Great Barrier Reef, this means increased risk of mass coral bleaching. These events have occurred four times in recent years (2016, 2017, 2020 and 2022).
The Great Barrier Reef is one of the nation’s most widely-known and important tourism destinations, accounting for about 64,000 jobs and contributing $6.4bn to the economy.
On the Great Barrier Reef, the relatively rapid succession of such extreme bleaching events is a clear sign of human-caused climate change, said David Wachenfeld, research program director at the ...
The Great Barrier Reef, on the northeast coast of Australia, is the world’s largest and best known coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands covering an area of ...
One of the seven wonders of the natural world, the Great Barrier Reef lies in the clear blue waters off the northeast coast of Australia. Spanning 14 degrees of latitude, this complex reef system is ...
The widespread heat stress on the Great Barrier Reef, causing huge bleaching events among the corals, has been revealed in new satellite images. A map, ...
In-water monitoring shows hard coral cover across the Great Barrier Reef remains at similar levels to that recorded in 2022, with small decreases in the Northern, Central and Southern regions.