These protected areas bring an incredible amount of biodiversity right into the bustling metropolis–including coral reefs.

Understanding how far Great Barrier Reef corals are from their parents could be key to identifying and protecting at-risk ...

The Great Barrier Reef runs over 2,300 kilometres along Queensland's coast. That is more than the full height of India from top to bottom. It includes 3,000 reef systems and over 900 islands.

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. The research, led by Professor Michael ...

The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system. It stretches over 2,300 kilometres along the coast of Queensland, Australia. Made up of nearly 3,000 reefs and 900 islands, it is ...

Emergent patterns of reef fish diversity correlate with coral assemblage shifts along the Great Barrier Reef. Nature Communications, 2025; 16 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-55128-7 ...

Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the face of climate change and other human-caused pressures, a new study reveals.   From food security to controlling seaweed and ...

A 14-year study of coral reefs around inshore islands of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has documented substantial declines in fish populations, particularly around popular, highly visited inshore ...

The dinner raised over $1.6 million, a portion of which will go towards helping the Great Barrier Reef Foundation deploy 10 million heat-tolerant corals annually across 100 priority reefs by 2030 ...

Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef is fundamentally changing because of repeated bleaching caused by high ocean temperatures brought on by climate change, according to marine biologists ...

A school of fish swim through a break in the coral along the Great Barrier Reef on August 10, 2022, on Hastings Reef, Australia. Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images ...

It was first sighted in a sand burrow by scientists mapping the changing biodiversity on and around Lady Elliot Island at the Great Barrier Reef’s southern end. “It’s been a while since a ‘never ...