CANBERRA, June 21 -- A recent study has found that emotions such as grief, sadness, and hope are motivating divers to take part in restoration efforts on the Great Barrier Reef, which is ...

New research adds to our understanding of how rapidly rising sea levels due to climate change foreshadow the end of the Great Barrier Reef as we know it. The findings suggest the reef can ...

Since the program’s inception in 2018, over 125,000 corals have been outplanted across the Great Barrier Reef — off Cairns, Port Douglas and the Whitsundays — with a survival rate of 85%.

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has again raised grave fears for the future of the Great Barrier Reef, highlighting the problems of water pollution, climate change and unsustainable fishing.

Because of the exceptional heat, NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch program had to add three new levels to the agency’s Bleaching Alert Scale in 2023. Previously, the highest level was 2, which indicated ...

It reveals how the Great Barrier Reef in northern Australia responded to a dramatic rise in sea level some 13,000 to 10,000 years ago. A hotly debated event Several “ meltwater pulse events ...

UNESCO welcomes Australia’s decision to implement urgent new protection measures to safeguard the Great Barrier Reef recommended by UNESCO. The measures include a ban on fishing with gillnets. The ...

The Great Barrier Reef was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. The vast underwater ecosystem is home to more than 400 types of coral and 1,500 species of fish, according to UNESCO.

But restoring areas of the Great Barrier Reef is no easy task. It has almost 3,000 individual reefs and covers 344,400 square kilometers (133,000 square miles), and as of April 2024, as much as 60 ...