Join us for an unforgettable journey through the Great Barrier Reef, where we witness an epic encounter between dolphins and ...

This is the Great Barrier Reef’s fifth major bleaching event in nine years. Scientists say it could be the biggest test yet of the 1,400-mile-long world wonder’s ability to recover.

Dr. Ella Vallelonga, from the University of Adelaide's Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, examined how reef conservation diving dissolves "human exceptionalism"—the idea that humans ...

The sheer size of the Great Barrier Reef system — it spans some 1,700 miles and is so large it can easily be spotted from space — means the survey is staggered over seven or eight months of ...

Understanding how far Great Barrier Reef corals are from their parents could be key to identifying and protecting at-risk ...

UNESCO’s comments confirm what experts already know: despite substantial money and effort, threats to the Great Barrier Reef aren’t going away.

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is all about superlatives. It is the world’s largest coral reef, extending some 1,400 miles off the east coast of Australia and covering some 133,000 square miles.

Obviously, The Great Barrier Reef can’t handle 50-100% higher global warming by 2030, and who knows how badly it’ll impact the Amazon and Antarctica and Arctic permafrost and Greenland.

Aug. 7 (UPI) --Ocean temperatures surrounding the Great Barrier Reef are at their highest levels in 400 years, threatening "critical damage" to the iconic ecosystem, a study released Wednesday found.

The sprawling Great Barrier Reef spans more than 1,400 miles along Australia’s northeast coast, counts some 2,500 individual reefs and can be viewed from space.

The Great Barrier Reef spans 2,300 kilometers, comprising more than 3,000 individual reefs. It is an exceptionally diverse ecosystem that features more than 12,000 animal species, plus many ...

At the Keeper Reef in Australia's Great Barrier Reef, a type of coral called Acropora releases bundles of sperm and eggs from its gut cavity. The male and female cells float to the top of the ...