Before and after photos of coral bleached and later dying between March and May 2016 off Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef. Picture: XL Caitlin Seaview Survey “BEAUTIFUL one day, perfect ...

WILLIAM WEST/AFP via Getty. In a 2015 report, WWF warned that over half of the Great Barrier Reef's coral cover had disappeared over the last 30 years due to climate change and water pollution ...

The Great Barrier Reef, located along the coastline of Queensland, is the world’s largest and longest coral reef system. Averaging about the same size as Japan or Italy, it is made up of more ...

I spent one night on the Rum Runner, a 65-foot sailboat that ports in Cairns, Australia. The boat calls itself a floating hostel that sleeps 18 people on trips to the Great Barrier Reef. I thought ...

Australia is pushing back on a United Nations-backed mission’s recommendation to add its treasured Great Barrier Reef to the list of endangered World Heritage sites, saying there was no need for ...

The widespread heat stress on the Great Barrier Reef, causing huge bleaching events among the corals, has been revealed in new satellite images. A map, shared by the NASA Earth Observatory, ...

The Great Reef Census collects a trove of images of what is arguably Australia’s greatest natural treasure. Each picture can contain vital information about the health of the Great Barrier Reef.

Mass coral bleaching first hit the Great Barrier Reef in 1998 and then again in 2002. In the past eight years there have been five incidents of mass coral bleaching: in 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022 and ...

"So when it empties, it empties an enormous amount of water out into the Great Barrier Reef lagoon." Another satellite image ...