Making the ship into a reef is "not why I spent so much of my life trying to save her," Susan Gibbs, who runs the SS United States Conservancy (and whose grandfather designed the ship), said in an ...

first went diving on the vast reef in the early 1960s he felt like "his life started." "It was so much packed into a small area, so much life, so much activity, even noisy. It was really a ...

This story appears in the May 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Not far beneath the surface of the Coral Sea, where the Great Barrier Reef lives, parrotfish teeth grind against rock ...

What about changes in ocean currents? At present, the South Equatorial Current carries warm water westward toward the Barrier Reef but then splits into the north-flowing Gulf of Papua Current and ...

The research by University of Sydney marine scientists highlights the complex interplay between heat stress, disease onset ...