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A study has found concerning new evidence of long-term declines in coral reef fish around highly visited inshore islands of the Great Barrier Reef. Scientists surveyed reefs at 100 sites ...
FILE - In this photo provided by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority small fish school in waters of Ribbon Reef No 10 near Cairns, Australia, Sept. 12, 2017. Australia’s Great ...
Decades of degradation The site, which attracts millions of tourists each year, is the world's largest coral reef, home to some 400 types of coral, 1500 species of fish and 4000 varieties of ...
Approximately 89 percent of The Great Barrier Reef is dead or dying. Countless species of “reef fish” have fled the decaying ecosystem, and others like it, taking with them the essential ...
Science Great Barrier Reef's latest problem is that it's too quiet The latest threat to Australia's natural wonder is sound. There aren't enough fish making noise for baby fish to hear their ...
At a time when the Great Barrier Reef and other coral reefs are facing unprecedented destruction, researchers in Australia have found a small ray of hope for the fish that make the reefs ...
Australia's Great Barrier Reef has been hit by a major coral bleaching event, with the results consistent with patterns of heat stress that have built up over summer at the biologically ...