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The Great Barrier Reef should be added to the list of world heritage sites that are “in danger”, a team of scientists concluded after conducting a mission to the world’s largest coral reef ...

When the algae leaves, the coral is left without its main source of food and it turns white. The Great Barrier Reef is a Unesco-listed World Heritage site due to its "enormous scientific and ...

The Great Barrier Reef – the world's largest reef system that's "one of the richest and most complex natural ecosystems on Earth" – is once again undergoing a mass coral bleaching event.

Bleaching damage on the corals of the Great Barrier Reef near Queensland, Australia. Credit: GREG TORDA/ARC CENTRE CORAL/REX/Shutterstock Australia's Great Barrier Reef is under serious threat as ...

The study analyzes the spatial distribution patterns of "grazing halos" surrounding coral reefs. Around the world, coral ...

UNESCO designated the reef as a World Heritage Site in 1981 ... the better off not just the Great Barrier Reef will be, but society is going to be. It’s the coral in the coal mine.” ...

Further, the researchers say that this region of the Great Barrier Reef experienced massive death rates, with more than 44 percent of the bleached coral dying off by July. Some, like coral genera ...

With NOAA confirming late last month that more than 83% of the planet's reefs have been hit by extreme ocean heat since ...

ecologically important site. (CNN) — The southern Great Barrier Reef is suffering from extensive coral bleaching due to heat stress, the reef’s managers said Wednesday, raising fears that a ...