They considered 250 vacation destinations to make the final list. These breathtaking photos will show why the Great Barrier Reef earned the top spot.

Narrator: This is the Great Barrier Reef, and it's dying. Less than 20 years ago ... the longest coral-bleaching events ever recorded. It devastated the reef, killing off nearly 50% of the ...

Time and tides and a planet in eternal flux brought the Great Barrier Reef into being millions of years ago, wore it ... of life within 50 years. What will be left? "Coral skeletons bathed in ...

During the past two years, Australia's iconic ... SEE ALSO: Great Barrier Reef is A-OK says climate change skeptic as she manhandles coral It had previously been known that the northern sections ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ocean temperatures in the Great Barrier Reef hit ... too hot and coral expel the algae that provide them with color and food, and sometimes die. Earlier this year, aerial ...

The Great Barrier Reef ... long-term picture of the ocean surface temperatures driving coral bleaching. It shows recent sea surface heat is unprecedented compared to the past 400 years.

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 ...

Satellite imagery has revealed the huge amounts of floodwater heading into the ocean and towards parts of the Great Barrier Reef after ... in the Coral Sea. Before-and-after images were captured ...

5, 2025 — A new study of the Great Barrier Reef has revealed ... in the Southwestern Pacific: Coral Colony from Fiji Reveals Warmest Temperatures in Over 600 Years Sep. 18, 2024 — The sea ...

George Roff - a marine ecologist at CSIRO - has been documenting the transformation of coral in the Great ... also been diving the Great Barrier Reef for the past 20 years. She says her latest ...

Warming waters threaten World Heritage icon. Reports that an island in northern Australia is experiencing the worst coral bleaching since 2002 is sparking renewed concern for the Great Barrier Reef.