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.

UNESCO’s comments confirm what experts already know: despite substantial money and effort, threats to the Great Barrier Reef ...

Parts of the Great Barrier Reef have recorded their highest amount ... said that most of the increase was driven by fast-growing Acropora corals which are “particularly vulnerable” to coral ...

Scientists say the recovery from those events was driven by fast-growing Acropora corals, which are more vulnerable to thermal stress and coral bleaching. “The Great Barrier Reef has seen ...

The Great Barrier Reef's northern ... that live in the coral. These tiny algae are important because they produce about 90% of the food that coral needs to grow. Coral bleaching happens when ...

so the short-term success of a handful of fast-growing coral species masques the full story about the largely hidden losses of biodiversity on the internationally significant Great Barrier Reef ...

Temperatures have reached unprecedented highs in the Great Barrier Reef ... Corals are animals that secrete calcium carbonate skeletons that form reefs. The skeletons of corals that can grow ...

An insurance policy for the world's coral will protect ... Not-for-profit Great Barrier Reef Legacy managing director Dean Miller said the facility at Cairns Aquarium was similar to the "doomsday ...

Preliminary results from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) in-water surveys found that 12 out 19 reefs surveyed along the tourist-populated central-northern coast between Lizard ...

By Christine Chung The Great Barrier Reef in Australia, the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem and one of its most biodiverse, is under significant threat from climate change and should be ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is highly ... In this state, the corals become highly vulnerable, meaning they are more likely to die. And when they die, they rarely grow back.