Approximately 33 percent of reef-forming coral species are threatened with extinction due to multiple threats including habitat destruction, pollution, and climate change. Nearly half of Australia's ...

Although there's no "Reef View" to rival the Street View on Google Maps, a bird's-eye view of the Great Barrier Reef using new map data and satellite imagery is now available for anyone to go ogle!

As global warming drives more events that impact coral reefs, managing the Great Barrier Reef’s resilience demands comprehensive and detailed mapping of the reef bed. Available surveys and maps with ...

In August, marine biologists Johnny Gaskell and Peter Mumby and a team of researchers boarded a boat headed into unknown waters off the coasts of Australia. For 14 long hours, they ploughed over 200 ...

a) map shows the extend of the 2 regions (i-north, ii-south) of the GBR used in this study. b) background map shows the average rainfall annual distribution based on 30-year records (1961-1990) ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Could it all come crumbling down?

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

Two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia recorded the highest amount of coral cover in nearly four decades, though the reef is still vulnerable to climate change and mass bleaching, a ...

New research adds to our understanding of how rapidly rising sea levels due to climate change foreshadow the end of the Great Barrier Reef as we know it. The findings suggest the reef can withstand ...

Thirty miles off the coast of Queensland, Australia, a small piece of history was made last summer: Scientists transplanted hundreds of nursery-grown coral fragments onto the beleaguered Great Barrier ...

A new Fiji Airways route cuts travel time for North Americans traveling to the Great Barrier Reef from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas-Fort Worth or Vancouver. ByRoger Sands, Contributor. Forbes ...