Located off the northeastern coast of Australia, the Great Barrier Reef — made up of more than 3,860 separate coral reefs, according to some measures — is such a massive natural structure that ...

"For most years, say five out of seven years, there will be now mass bleaching on coral reefs around the world," he says. Veron says he hates to predict the future for the Great Barrier Reef ...

The soft coral’s vivid color likely suggests toxicity ... Indeed, one lesson is that despite today's weighty threats, the Great Barrier Reef won't easily crumble. It has, after all, toughed ...

“The only solution is for the whole world to get together and stop polluting the earth with carbon emissions,” says Hoggett. ...

The research team meticulously tracked the health of 462 coral colonies at the University of Sydney's Great Barrier Reef research station at One Tree Island over a period of 161 days. The results ...

A destination of unspoiled beaches with direct access to the Great Barrier Reef, charming old-school resorts, stunning ...

Western Australia’s Ningaloo has experienced the highest level of heat stress ever recorded, while coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef has been detected from Townsville to Cape York ...

He captured the Great Barrier Reef during its latest—and most devastating—mass die-off, and documented how coral off the coast ... graveyard behind. “The soft corals were just decomposing ...

Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg describes the Great Barrier Reef as "the Manhattan of marine ecosystems”. Coral reefs are vitally important nursery grounds for fish and other marine life.

Beneath the soft bodies of scleractinian, or stony corals, polyps secrete a calcium carbonate skeleton, and it is this skeleton that becomes the foundation of coral reef ecosystems. Coral colonies ...