The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over part of the Great Barrier Reef off Australia’s northeast coast on 1 April 2017. Extending more than 2000 km and covering an area of some 350 ...

Australian authorities say the Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral in four decades.

An annual survey of coral on the Great Barrier Reef shows more coral was lost in 2024 than in any other year since records ...

Made up of 3,000 individual reefs, the Great Barrier Reef stretches from the tip of Queensland, down to Hervey Bay, just north of Brisbane. It's as big as Germany, covering 347,800 square ...

The sheer size of the Great Barrier Reef makes mapping expeditions expensive, and, no surprise, funding is hard to come by. Large ships that use remote sensing in deep waters can cost AU$40,000 ...

Coral cover on parts of the Great Barrier Reef has crashed by as much as a third following a global mass bleaching event.

The Great Barrier Reef is deteriorating at an alarming pace, but scientists are optimistic space satellite imagery could help keep it from disappearing completely. Space-based images could help to ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is experiencing one of its worst bleaching events since monitoring began nearly four decades ago, authorities say, with much of the famed reef showing signs of ...

But over half the reef is at imminent risk of dying… As temperatures rise on Earth and in oceans, corals in the Great Barrier Reef, as well as around the world, have begun to “bleach.” It ...