The loggerhead turtle population was on the brink of extinction but after 40 years of careful management, the largest ...

The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system. It stretches over 2,300 kilometres along the coast of Queensland, Australia. Made up of nearly 3,000 reefs and 900 islands, it is a ...

Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the face of climate change and other human-caused pressures, a new study reveals. From food security to controlling seaweed and even making ...

Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef is fundamentally changing because of repeated bleaching caused by high ocean temperatures brought on by climate change, according to marine biologists. “It’s not ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades of record-keeping, Australian authorities say.

Inside a bold — and controversial — effort to cool the water around this beloved ecosystem. An Australian research vessel testing a localized form of climate engineering — artificial modification of ...

The Guardian of the Reef platform helps visitors make more eco-conscious travel plans. Rachel Chang is a travel and pop culture journalist who contributes to Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, ...

Parts of Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef, famed for its stunning colors and biodiversity, suffered the biggest decline of coral on record last year after a marine heatwave bleached vast swathes ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has a silent, largely unheralded protector: salt marshes. These muddy patches just inland from coastal mangrove forests play crucial roles in keeping the reef as healthy ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has suffered the largest decline in coral cover in two of its three regions over the last year, research released on Wednesday showed, following a mass bleaching of its ...

Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the face of climate change and other human-caused pressures, a new study reveals Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in ...