Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on the planet and home to a vast array of species. But in recent years it has been hit by a series of devastating mass ...

It formed between 13,000 and 10,000 years ago, just prior to the start of the modern reef as we know it. We refer to this reef as the “proto-Great Barrier Reef”.

Marine Physicist Peter Ridd says alarmism on the Great Barrier Reef’s ruin has been “exaggerated”.

A drop in shipping emissions has caused a surge in warming at the Great Barrier Reef, fuelling calls for drastic actions such as marine cloud brightening to lower the risk of coral bleaching ...