This story appears in the May 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Not far beneath the surface of the Coral Sea, where the Great Barrier Reef lives, parrotfish teeth grind against rock ...

Does last summer’s mass coral bleaching event sound a death knell for Australia’s beloved Great Barrier Reef? “Not on my watch!” is the message coming from the army of heartbroken, but resolute, ...

He is also the managing director of the NGO ‘Great Barrier Reef Legacy ... to remote parts of the reef. They recently founded a coral biobank to conserve endangered coral species for future coral ...

The Great Barrier Reef is home to an incredible amount of biodiversity, with over 9,000 known species of marine life National Geographic Society. However, there are likely many more species that ...

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 ... withdrew its National Energy Guarantee ...

This story appears in the October 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Its Australian cousin, the Great Barrier Reef, is great indeed at 1,429 miles long—the biggest structure created ...

Instead, she stumbled upon an octopus named Scarlett. As she swam close to the otherworldly creature, it hesitated. But within a few moments, the octopus shed its fear and drifted near Schnell, ...

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Researchers in Australia have designed a centralised AI-powered system to monitor the Great Barrier Reef and other reef systems around the world ... enabling earlier intervention,” said Central ...