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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 ...
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is all about superlatives. It is the world’s largest coral reef, extending some 1,400 miles off the east coast of Australia and covering some 133,000 square miles.
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.
Marine Physicist Peter Ridd says alarmism on the Great Barrier Reef’s ruin has been “exaggerated”. Mr Ridd told Sky News host Andrew Bolt that the death of the Great Barrier Reef has been ...
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.
On the Great Barrier Reef, the relatively rapid succession of such extreme bleaching events is a clear sign of human-caused climate change, said David Wachenfeld, research program director at the ...
The area surveyed represents two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef. Almost half of the reefs studied had between 10% and 30% hard coral cover, while about a third of the reefs had hard coral cover ...
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.
A new study has awful news for the Great Barrier Reef. Located off the coast of Australia, this reef is one of the largest in the world. However, this world treasure is in dire need of help, as ...
Coral in the Great Barrier Reef is resilient, and has been able to recover from past disturbances, the Institute said. But the stressors impacting it have not gone away for long.
It’s been a good week for the Great Barrier Reef. Results of the latest coral survey confirm a four-decade high in coral cover has been maintained and UNESCO says it will keep Australia’s ...