Holidaymakers have voted on the best islands in the world, from tropical islands in the Caribbean to sun-soaked spots in the ...

The ever-popular Byron Bay of the early 2000s has been joined by the quieter neighbouring spot of Yamba as a favourite in ...

Think of the Whitsundays and it’s easy to imagine luxe resorts, romantic honeymoons and the recently-popularised babymoon.

Weymouth Beach is regularly named one of the top 20 beaches in Europe, while Durdle Door was designated England's first ...

This year’s top islands, as voted in our “World’s Best Awards” survey for 2025, span 18 countries, from the Mediterranean to ...

Amelia Island delivers. Set up on the sand of Main Beach with a beach chair or lounger, skip the cocktail for a cone, and let ...

An underwater photographer working on the Great Barrier Reef says widespread bleaching has left her “heartbroken”, but tourism operators say there’s still plenty for visitors to see.

Since the program’s inception in 2018, over 125,000 corals have been outplanted across the Great Barrier Reef — off Cairns, Port Douglas and the Whitsundays — with a survival rate of 85%.

Rows of tanks filled with liquid nitrogen sit in temperature-controlled chambers at Sydney's Taronga zoo, cradling parts of the Great Barrier Reef's diverse and magnificent corals frozen in time.

It draws from a geological time capsule of fossil reef cores, extracted from the seabed under the Great Barrier Reef.

New research led by the University of Sydney adds to our understanding of how rapidly rising sea levels due to climate change foreshadow the end of the Great Barrier Reef as we know it.