Polluted runoff is still smothering the Great Barrier Reef, our first national assessment of water quality trends in ...

Despite its importance, the Great Barrier Reef faces a number of threats, including climate change, pollution, and overfishing. Scientists are working to better understand these threats and ...

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 of the Great Barrier Reef has revealed that the network of no-take marine reserves supplies nearly half of the ...

The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system. It stretches over 2,300 kilometres along the coast of ...

Around the globe, government initiatives like the US Coral Reef Task Force, Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine ... such as watershed pollution and sedimentation. (The US even recognized coral ...

The Great Barrier Reef ecosystem faces many pressures with ... This is compounded by other pressures, such as tropical storms, water pollution and outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish.

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 catch.

Marine scientists from the University of Sydney yesterday have published the first peer-reviewed study documenting “catastrophic” coral bleaching events at the southern Great Barrier Reef in ...