It hosts 5,000 types of mollusks, 1,800 species of fish ... Time and tides and a planet in eternal flux brought the Great Barrier Reef into being millions of years ago, wore it down, and grew ...

Parts of the Great Barrer Reef have suffered the highest coral mortality on record, Australian researchers say, and they fear ...

A study has found concerning new evidence of long-term declines in coral reef fish around highly visited inshore islands of ...

New AIMS survey reveals up to 72 per cent coral mortality on key reefs, highlighting the devastating impact of mass bleaching ...

On the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, Fred Short, UNH research professor of natural resources and marine science, retrieves marked plants for an assessment of seagrass productivity. Disclaimer ...

Scientists say they've discovered a "mega coral" three times bigger than the previous record holder - so huge they initially ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has lost more than half of its corals since 1995 due to warmer seas driven by climate change, a study has found. Scientists found all types of corals had suffered a ...

The Great Barrier Reef is Earth's largest coral reef system - rather than ... Roughly 20 to 25 percent of fish, molluscs and crustaceans in developing countries come from coral reefs, 70 to 90 percent ...

Climate change-driven heat and cyclones have caused a large chunk of the Great Barrier Reef to drop in health, with some areas reporting the largest coral decline in 39 years. Preliminary results ...

Some northern parts of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered their biggest annual decline in coral cover in the 39 years of a long-running marine monitoring program. The preliminary report from the ...