An aerial view of Vlassof Cay in the Great Barrier Reef, Nov. 14, 2012 in Cairns, Australia. Credit: Mark Kolbe/Getty Images The bad news: 22 percent of Australia's Great Barrier Reef has died.

In 2016 and 2017, marine heat waves caused by climate change resulted in mass bleaching, which killed about half of the corals on the Great Barrier Reef, along with many others around the world.

The two British tourists, a 46-year-old male and his 17-year-old son, were swimming near the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef ... but get an aerial view of the stunning Australian beaches ...

The best way to get around the Great Barrier Reef is by car or boat ... This mode of transportation doesn't include the breathtaking aerial views provided from a plane, but boats depart at ...

As long as people have been visiting the Great Barrier Reef, they've been obsessed with it. Under the shimmering turquoise waters of Australia's east coast is a labyrinth of alien-like ...

“We’ll be conducting further aerial surveys this week in the central Great Barrier Reef to identify where it stops," Hughes said. Southern parts of the reef are thought to have escaped ...

On the northern end of the Great Barrier Reef sits a small island populated largely by long-tailed reptiles. It's named – perhaps unsurprisingly – Lizard Island and is home to a research ...

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on the planet _ so large, in fact, that it is the only living thing on earth visible from space. (Jumbo Aerial Photography/Great Barrier Reef ...