The Great Barrier Reef, a global treasure and the largest coral reef system on Earth, has suffered its most widespread coral bleaching event ever recorded. Spanning over 344,000 square kilometers ...

In Australia, conservationists warned the Great Barrier Reef could be suffering its “most severe” coral bleaching ever. Some 75% of the reef has bleached in the fifth such event in eight years ...

Today's Climate Corals Have ‘No Reprieve’ as the Great Barrier Reef Faces Its Latest Bleaching Event Increasingly frequent marine heat waves are hammering away at the world’s coral reefs ...

A coral head along the Great Barrier Reef in 2022 on Hastings Reef, Australia. Bleaching events and global warming have done significant damage to the Great Barrier Reef. (Michael Robinson Chavez ...

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

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is suffering another mass bleaching event, the reef’s managers confirmed Friday, the result of soaring ocean temperatures caused by the global climate crisis and ...

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 even ...

New research highlights the growing threat to the Great Barrier Reef caused by continually rising temperatures.

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 ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef faces critical danger from back-to-back bouts of extreme ocean heat. Ocean heat in the Coral Sea is at its highest in four centuries, scientists report in the Aug ...