If you have time in your itinerary to plan a side trip to the Great Barrier Reef, it’s a worthy addition – after all, how often do you get a chance to visit one of the seven natural wonders of the ...

Record ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on ...

The Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia is the largest living coral reef system on Earth, about 300 times larger than the next largest reef, found off the coast of Belize.

Life on the Great Barrier Reef is ... benefits to humans and coral reef ecosystems. New research from an international team of marine scientists from the U.K. and Australia and led by researchers ...

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 team of Australian scientists found that bleaching on Australia's great barrier reef has reached catastrophic levels.

Covering nearly 133,000 square miles (345,000 square kilometers), the Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef, home to more than 1,500 species of fish and 411 species of hard corals.

Severe mass bleaching at the Great Barrier Reef had previously been observed in 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2022. The 2022 bleaching was the first during a La Niña event, El Niño’s ...