UPDATE: Nov. 28, 2016, 4:55 p.m. AEDT The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority is seeking more information about Pauline Hanson's visit to the reef Friday in which she was seen touching a piece of ...

About the size of Japan, the Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest single structure made by living organisms and ...

Feeding coral larvae a coral "baby food" can dramatically increase their chances of survival, offering a new avenue for reef ...

The Queensland and Commonwealth Governments are consulting on a new draft Reef 2050 Catchment Water Quality Strategy to help ...

Water pollution is still the biggest local threat to the Great Barrier Reef, undermining its resilience in the face of accelerating climate changeThe ...

The United Nations says the Great Barrier Reef has suffered such extensive damage that it should be listed as "in danger." The warning prompted an immediate rejection from the Australian government.

Australia will temporarily avoid having the Great Barrier Reef listed as an endangered world heritage site after the World Heritage Committee voted against the recommendations of UNESCO, the UN’s ...

Researchers investigating the coral microbiome in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef have found two clusters of co-existing bacteria. And, for the first time, they’ve discovered that one of them is a ...

Many people traveling to Australia dream of seeing the Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral reef system on Earth and one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. It measures for 2,300 km, which is ...

A magistrate has sentenced a Great Barrier Reef tourism operator that pleaded guilty to a workplace health and safety breach following the death of a passenger in 2022.

A new study of the Great Barrier Reef shows populations of its small, medium and large corals have all declined in the past three decades. Lead author Dr Andy Dietzel, from the ARC Centre of ...

Scientists have suspected that increasing ocean acidity would weaken and thin the structures underpinning tropical reefs. Now they have irrefutable evidence dating back 30,000 years. The scaffolds ...