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 ...

Australian authorities say the Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral in four decades.

An annual survey of coral on the Great Barrier Reef shows more coral was lost in 2024 than in any other year since records ...

Coral cover on parts of the Great Barrier Reef has crashed by as much as a third following a global mass bleaching event.

A new report has found that parts of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered the largest annual decline in coral cover since records began almost 40 years ago. According to the Australian Institute of ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has suffered the largest decline in coral cover in two of its three regions over the last year ...

The Great Barrier Reef: Australia’s National Treasure Located in the Coral Sea off Queensland, the Great Barrier Reef encompasses more than 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands.

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 ...

A drop in shipping emissions has caused a surge in warming at the Great Barrier Reef, fuelling calls for drastic actions such ...

Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Ocean temperatures surrounding the Great Barrier Reef are at their highest levels in 400 years, threatening "critical damage" to the iconic ecosystem, a study released Wednesday found.

Australian authorities say the Great Barrier Reef has seen its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse ...