Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the face of climate change and other human-caused pressures, a new study reveals. From food security to controlling seaweed and even making ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades of record-keeping, Australian authorities say.

World Reef Awareness Day rolls around every year on June 1 to remind us about coral reefs, some of the most vital natural ...

A NASA airborne mission designed to transform our understanding of Earth’s valuable and ecologically sensitive coral reefs has set up shop in Australia for a two-month investigation of the Great ...

Australia’s leading environmental groups have made an urgent call to the UN ahead of a worldwide meeting about the future of ...

A green sea turtle near Lady Elliot Island. We were 10,000 feet above the Pacific, in a tiny Cessna that seemed like it should have been flying much lower than that, when the clouds cleared and Lady ...

A passenger has been found dead on an exclusive resort island on the Great Barrier Reef after failing to board a cruise ship. The world's alarm bells are ringing loudly. What follows is a list of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Great ...