Despite its importance, the Great Barrier Reef faces a number of threats, including climate change, pollution, and overfishing. Scientists are working to better understand these threats and ...

In 2016 and 2017, marine heat waves caused by climate change resulted in mass bleaching, which killed about half of the corals on the Great Barrier Reef ... one of nature's greatest treasures ...

To say that the Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef may be understating things; the Australian government notes that it is "the only living organic collective visible from Earth's ...

As long as people have been visiting the Great Barrier Reef ... Climate change is widely agreed to be the reef's biggest ongoing threats, alongside other more local challenges like land-based ...

A police helicopter was dispatched over the Great Barrier Reef at 2.17pm in an attempt to rescue the father and son, but they were sadly declared dead when pulled from the water. Now, Treowen ...

Tragic Robin Reed, 46, and his son Owen Reed, 17, died while swimming without lifeguard supervision on April 13 near the Great Barrier reef. They were pulled from the water in Queensland ...

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 ...

Cairns is known as the “gateway to the Great Barrier Reef” due to its proximity to the Coral Sea. When combined with recently launched service from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, the travel time ...

The Great Barrier Reef is basically the David Attenborough of the natural world – legendary, record-breaking and absolutely fascinating. Stretching 2,300 kilometres along the Queensland coast ...

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A parrotfish who like munching on the Great Barrier Reef. This weighs heavily on my mind as I edge my flipper in the water to go snorkelling. Is the reef dead? Should I be visiting? What does a ...