This experiment kicked off in December, as the researchers recreated the annual mass coral spawning event in controlled ...

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 ...

Parts of Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef, famed for its stunning colors and biodiversity, suffered the biggest decline of coral on record last year after a marine heatwave bleached vast swathes ...

Life aboard a small boat on the remote Great Barrier Reef means every day depends on the ocean. From spearfishing coral trout for dinner to exploring untouched coral gardens, survival is tied directly ...

The Great Barrier Reef has experienced the largest annual decline in coral cover in two of the three regions since AIMS began monitoring 39 years ago. This was predominantly driven by climate ...

Experts say the colony is around 111 metres long - that's about the same length as a Premier League football pitch. Find out more here.

A mother–daughter dive on the Great Barrier Reef led to the discovery of a 34-metre-wide coral colony, now confirmed as the ...

Synthetic pheromones may be a promising tool in attracting and culling troublesome crown-of-thorns starfish, which rapidly eat large amounts of coral on the Great Barrier Reef Annie Roth, bioGraphic ...

Day 50 of living at sea leads to one of the most fascinating discoveries yet. While sailing across the outer Great Barrier Reef, the crew begins searching for the wreck of the Sapphire, a ship that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest living structure, so big, it can be seen from space. Photograph by Kieran Stone, ...