Coral reefs worldwide, including the Great Barrier Reef, have faced severe damage from recent bleaching events caused by ...

Scientists from the University of Technology Sydney are searching for “super corals,” species that are naturally more ...

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 ...

To do this, they undertook the first high resolution regional ocean modelling of the Great Barrier Reef in a climate scenario known as Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5.

Parts of the Great Barrier Reef have recorded their highest amount of coral cover since the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) began monitoring 36 years ago, according to a report ...

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.

Scientists use satellites in fight to save coral reefs 03:23. The central and northern stretches of Australia's Great Barrier Reef are showing the highest coral cover seen in 36 years, showing ...

Alarming new research has revealed the Great Barrier Reef will inevitably succumb to the impacts of climate change as temperatures in surrounding waters reach a 400-year high.

A new set of samples of the Great Barrier Reef has raised new concerns about the danger posed to the reef by climate change. New research surrounding the temperatures in Australia around the coral ...

Parts of the Great Barrer Reef have suffered the highest coral mortality on record, Australian researchers say, and they fear the rest of it has suffered a similar fate.