Australian researchers are designing a global real-time monitoring system to help save the world's coral reefs from further ...

The Largest Living Structure on Earth Imagine something so vast that it's visible even from space—this is the Great Barrier ...

Record-breaking ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaching “catastrophic” levels, a new ...

The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system. It stretches over 2,300 kilometres along the coast of ...

The best way to get around the Great Barrier ... Virgin Australia Airlines, Jetstar Airways and Qantas. From Hamilton Island, you can easily hop on a plane or boat to explore the reef's ...

Many visitors say the Great Barrier Reef is best seen through ... Known locally as the Outer Barrier Reef, these reefs are ideal for first-time divers and families because of the one- to three ...

Polluted runoff is still smothering the Great Barrier Reef, our first national assessment of water quality trends in ...

Marine scientists from the University of Sydney yesterday have published the first peer-reviewed study documenting “catastrophic” coral bleaching events at the southern Great Barrier Reef in ...

Record ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaching “catastrophic” levels ...

The World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef (GBR), considered the jewel in the crown of coral reefs worldwide and one of Australia's most significant ecological and tourism assets, has been ...

Covering nearly 133,000 square miles (345,000 square kilometers), the Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef, home to more than 1,500 species of fish and 411 species of hard corals.