The Great Barrier Reef has been plagued by mass bleaching events several times in the past two decades. According to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, this marks the eighth event since 1998 and ...

The Great Barrier Reef is home to an incredible amount of biodiversity, with over 9,000 known species of marine life National Geographic Society. However, there are likely many more species that ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has decided not to add the Great Barrier Reef to its list of sites “in danger,” despite overwhelming scientific evidence that suggests it’s at risk of ...

There have been several outbreaks of these starfish on the Great Barrier Reef, each lasting between 10 and 15 years, with the first occurring in the 1960s. These starfish are considered a major ...

It's the world's biggest coral reef system, home to some 400 types of coral. In the past 18 months, rising ocean temperatures helped cause the single greatest loss of coral ever recorded there.

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 ...

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 the world’s largest coral reef, extending across 348,000 square kilometers (134,000 square miles) and comprising nearly 3,000 individual reefs.

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 ...

In much of Queensland, that means the runoff heads for the Great Barrier Reef instead. We did see some improvement under the Coalition government, which put A$443 million into trying to solve the ...

Great Barrier Reef waters were hottest in 400 years over the past decade, study finds By SUMAN NAISHADHAM The Associated Press,Updated August 7, 2024, 3:28 p.m.