A mother-and-daughter team of citizen scientists has identified the world’s largest known coral colony, found on the Great ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades of record-keeping, Australian authorities say. But due ...

Citizen scientists taking part in the Great Reef Census, run by Citizens of the Reef, have identified the largest known coral ever documented on the Great Barrier Reef. The discovery was made by ...

"I knew right from the minute we dropped in that it was something special," conservationist Sophie Kalkowski-Pope said.

This experiment kicked off in December, as the researchers recreated the annual mass coral spawning event in controlled ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is experiencing yet another mass coral bleaching event due to heat, the country’s government confirmed Friday. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, which ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian government agency says the Great Barrier Reef is suffering widespread and severe coral bleaching due to high ocean temperatures two years after a mass ...

Qantas and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation have announced a new fund that will help accelerate the restoration of Australia’s reef systems, including investment in Coral IVF programs, corals with ...

Outside Magazine published a somewhat tongue-in-cheek obituary for the Great Barrier Reef earlier this week, citing its lifespan from 25 million BC-2016. The article detailed the life of the reef, its ...