Last year, more than 40,000 tourists travelled to Ningaloo to swim with them, a number far less than the Great Barrier Reef’s 2.24m. Strict protocols mean that the experience is tightly controlled.

By spanning over 135,000 square miles, the Great Barrier Reef eclipses the sizes of over 100 countries.Ranked among the world’s nations, the reef system would place 63rd, just between Germany ...

Parts of the Great Barrer Reef have suffered the highest coral mortality on record, Australian researchers say, and they fear the rest of it has suffered a similar fate.

This is the Ningaloo Coast, a World Heritage Site with 160 miles of reef water. Each year, hundreds of docile filter-feeding mega-sharks cruise here.

Obviously, The Great Barrier Reef can’t handle 50-100% higher global warming by 2030, and who knows how badly it’ll impact the Amazon and Antarctica and Arctic permafrost and Greenland.

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 ...

The map shows just how much the temperatures around Australia's famous Great Barrier Reef has changed. The reef, which is vital for over a thousand species as well as Australia's economy, is in ...

High ocean temperatures lead to devastating coral bleaching 02:56. The Great Barrier Reef – the world's largest reef system that's "one of the richest and most complex natural ecosystems on ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ocean temperatures in the Great Barrier Reef hit their highest level in 400 years over the past decade, according to researchers who warned that the reef likely won’t survive ...

This satellite image, acquired by the Landsat-8 satellite on 23 August 2013, takes us off the east coast of Australia where currents swirl in the water around corals. The Great Barrier Reef is the ...

The Great Barrier Reef was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. The vast underwater ecosystem is home to more than 400 types of coral and 1,500 species of fish, according to UNESCO.