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

The Great Barrier Reef stretches for more than 1,600 miles along the coast of Queensland, in north-east Australia. While areas have been mapped before, it has been impossible to cover the shallowest ...

The Great Barrier Reef is home to an incredible amount of biodiversity, with over 9,000 known species of marine life National Geographic Society. However, there are likely many more species that ...

The Great Barrier Reef spans 2,300 kilometers, comprising more than 3,000 individual reefs. It is an exceptionally diverse ecosystem that features more than 12,000 animal species, plus many ...

The Great Barrier Reef is protected by a network of marine reserves designed to conserve its biodiversity. These reserves protect critical habitats for many species, including the coral trout, the ...

The current bleaching event is impacting all four management zones of the Great Barrier Reef, with the most severe bleaching happening in a 650-kilometer (400-mile) span between Cooktown ...

Coral in the Great Barrier Reef is resilient, and has been able to recover from past disturbances, the Institute said. But the stressors impacting it have not gone away for long.