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 ...

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 ...

When the algae leaves, the coral is left without its main source of food and it turns white. When bleaching occurs, the corals turn white and lose their colour The Great Barrier Reef is a Unesco ...

When Palacio and her team examined coral reefs after the 2015–2016 heat wave, they found that particular corals called ...

Polluted runoff is still smothering the Great Barrier Reef, our first national assessment of water quality trends in Australian rivers has revealed. The problem on the reef is getting worse, not ...

When these conditions arise, the symbiotic algae living in coral tissue ... to track how well corals in the Southern Great Barrier Reef recover from coral bleaching under modern ocean conditions.

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

Feb. 5, 2025 — A new study of the Great Barrier Reef has revealed that the network of no-take marine reserves supplies nearly half of the region's coral trout fishery ... Jan. 10, 2025 — To ...

Corals are bleached white when marine heat waves put corals under stress, causing them to expel algae from ... kilometers), the Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef, home to ...