In past bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef ... but also bleached anemones and soft corals. There are few starfish or sea urchins, yet algae growing on dead coral is attracting more ...

were swept out to sea on April 13 while swimming at Round Hill Head - a beach without lifeguards - in Seventeen Seventy, Queensland. A police helicopter was dispatched over the Great Barrier Reef ...

The Great Barrier Reef isn’t just ... We saw several gorgeous sea turtles, clownfish dart among anemones, and a reef shark cruise past (thankfully, while we were on the glass bottom boat).

Dugongs and sea turtles swim in the waters around the island. Part of the outer Great Barrier Reef, Wheeler Reef lies some 40 nautical miles off the coast of Townsville. Wheeler Reef is off the beaten ...

Not many people visit Lady Elliot Island, at the Great Barrier Reef's southern tip. But a lot of people are trying to protect ...

Two British tourists have drowned off the coast of a popular tourist town at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef. A boy, 17, and a man, 46, were swept out to sea on Sunday while swimming at ...

TWO Brit tourists who drowned after being swept out to sea in Australia have been named ... supervision on April 13 near the Great Barrier reef. They were pulled from the water in Queensland ...

The British tourists were caught by strong currents on Sunday and dragged out to sea while swimming at a beach in a renowned tourist spot at the southern extremity of the Great Barrier Reef.

As long as people have been visiting the Great Barrier Reef ... A giant clam lives at the bottom of the sea floor at Opal Reef.(ABC: Chris Lewis) "That doesn't diminish what we think the threats ...