Stretching almost 1,500 miles, the Great Barrier Reef is so vast that just 20% has been surveyed. With tourism funding ...

Parts of the Great Barrer Reef have suffered the highest coral mortality on record, Australian research showed Tuesday, with scientists fearing the rest of it has suffered a similar fate. The ...

The Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its fifth coral bleaching event in eight years. Surprisingly, tour operators are crucial in providing the research the government needs to save the treasure. The ...

Many people traveling to Australia dream of seeing the Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral reef system on Earth and one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. It measures for 2,300 km, which is ...

The world's alarm bells are ringing loudly. What follows is a list of really good reasons to despair – and an excellent argument for why you absolutely should not.

News stories suggesting “the Great Barrier Reef — the aquatic wonder off Australia’s coast — is in grave peril” are highly deceptive, explains Bjorn Lomborg in The Wall Street Journal. “Australian ...

Temperatures have reached unprecedented highs in the Great Barrier Reef, threatening its survival if the planet continues to warm. Temperatures have reached unprecedented highs in the Great Barrier ...

Terry Hughes does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

The health of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's most extensive and spectacular coral reef ecosystem, is in a critical state and deteriorating as climate change warms up the waters in which ...

Some deeper areas of the Great Barrier Reef are insulated from harmful heatwaves -- but that protection will be lost if global warming continues, according to new research. Some deeper areas of the ...

Seven months after Florida corals faced what scientists called their worst bleaching event ever, a similar emergency grips the Great Barrier Reef: Its famed corals are under unprecedented and, in some ...