709,000 Aussies and 199,000 international travellers visited the Whitsundays in 2024 to explore the Great Barrier Reef, luxe dining and drinking offerings, and idyllic lifestyle experiences—and ...

Its next life is going to be underwater as the world’s largest artificial reef. Before it’s sunk workers must strip anything non-metal off the ship and clean out contaminants like old fuel.

Police are asking the public to help find missing Aotea/Great Barrier Island woman Julie Butler. The 55-year-old usually lives on her yacht, the “Blazing Shadz”, moored in Kaiaraara Bay.

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef faced a catastrophic bleaching event in 2024. And reefs in the Persian Gulf, the Caribbean and the Red Sea have all also experienced bleaching. A 2014 to 2017 ...

At 22, the Australian was a revelation with an impeccable nickname — “The Great Barrier Thief.” “Dyson Daniels has established himself as one of the elite perimeter defenders in the league ...

A year after the fourth worldwide coral bleaching event was declared by the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI), the "most intense" affair is still ongoing––with alerts continuing to be ...

The "most intense global coral bleaching event ever" has so far struck 84 per cent of the world's reefs and is ongoing, the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) — a global partnership ...

The Reef Snapshot: Summer 2024–25, published on April 16 by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, states: “Results of aerial surveys and in-water monitoring to date suggest the Reef ...

Two British tourists who drowned while swimming at a beach near the Great Barrier Reef have been named as Robin and Owen Reed. Robin, 46, and his son Owen, 17, from Caerphilly County in South ...

A police helicopter was dispatched over the Great Barrier Reef at 2.17pm in an attempt to rescue the father and son, but they were sadly declared dead when pulled from the water. Now, Treowen ...

A British father and son who drowned after being swept off the coast of Australia near the Great Barrier Reef have been named. Robin, 46, and Owen Reed, 17, were swimming at a beach not monitored ...

Harmful bleaching of the world's coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean's reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initiative announced ...