The United Nations says the Great Barrier Reef has suffered such extensive damage that it should be listed as "in danger." The warning prompted an immediate rejection from the Australian government.

The most sophisticated modeling to date forecasts that, under the current global emissions pathway, the Great Barrier Reef ...

This satellite image, acquired by the Landsat-8 satellite on 23 August 2013, takes us off the east coast of Australia where currents swirl in the water around corals. The Great Barrier Reef is the ...

Millions of coral larvae on the Great Barrier Reef have an increased chance of replenishing degraded reefs thanks to the ...

It’s never been so bad. The Great Barrier Reef, which is one of nature’s most iconic mosaics of biodiversity, is on the ropes because of extreme global warming. Coral bleaching at the World ...

The goby, acting as lookout, ducked for cover more often when four-stroke boats passed overhead. The shrimp, meanwhile, ...

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 ...

BEIJING — The Chinese host of this year’s meeting of the U.N. World Heritage Committee has defended the body’s proposal to label the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger” against Australian government ...

Scientists have suspected that increasing ocean acidity would weaken and thin the structures underpinning tropical reefs. Now they have irrefutable evidence dating back 30,000 years. The scaffolds ...

The Crisafulli Government delivers $23.5 million for Stage 2 of the Great Barrier Reef Arena under the Games On! program. Supports development of a ...

Suzanne Rees was allegedly left behind by the Coral Adventurer on the first stop of the cruise and was not reported missing ...