The Great Barrier Reef – the world's largest reef system that's "one of the richest and most complex natural ecosystems on Earth" – is once again undergoing a mass coral bleaching event. Officials ...

WOLLONGONG, New South Wales, Australia, August 8, 2024 (ENS) – A new 400-year temperature record published today shows the world’s largest coral reef is experiencing catastrophic damage. Warming sea ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian government agency says the Great Barrier Reef is suffering widespread and severe coral bleaching due to high ocean temperatures two years after a mass ...

The removal of sulphur from shipping fuels caused ‘a lot of extra sunlight’ to get through atmosphere and hit reef in 2022 ...

Bleached Acropora table coral on One Tree Island reef, southern Great Barrier Reef. April 2024. Credit: University of Sydney A team of marine scientists from the University of Sydney has published the ...

STORY: Most of Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef is suffering from coral bleaching, according to a report released on Wednesday. That's just days after climate experts raised concerns about ...

What impact do heatwaves have on coral reefs? This is what a recent study published in Limnology and Oceanography Letters hopes to address as a team of researchers from Australia investigated coral ...

Scientists have discovered that absent trade winds during crucial summer months are creating deadly heat traps that result 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, a new study has ...