Another view of the Great Barrier Reef, captured by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 satellite that examines the planet in high definition to assess change.

An aerial view of the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of the Whitsunday Islands, along the central coast of Queensland, Nov. 20, 2014. Sarah Lai/AFP via Getty Images, FILE.

Ningaloo Reef is one of the best preserved reefs left out there. Tourism Western Australia Every grade schooler knows that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest. The stuff of ...

An aerial view of the Great Barrier Reef in March 2020. Image by ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. Warming water temperatures, induced by climate change, are to blame for this year ...

To slow the speed at which high temperatures and warm waters bleach the corals of the Great Barrier Reef, Australian scientists are spraying droplets of ocean water into the sky to form clouds to ...

Coral has recovered from storms and bleaching to record levels across much of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, a survey has found. Find out more here.

To get a sense of just how great the Great Barrier Reef is, you have to fly over it, reports CBS News Correspondent Bob Simon. It stretches more than 1,200 miles up the northeast coast of ...

The Great Barrier Reef starts 30 nautical miles offshore of Port Douglas, and parts of the reef can be reached in as little as 15 minutes via boat or 10 minutes if you go by helicopter.