Warming waters from escalating climate change have caused coral bleaching in 91% of reefs surveyed along the Great Barrier Reef this year, according to new findings from an Australian government ...

STORY: Australia's Great Barrier Reef has suffered the largest decline in coral cover in two of its three regions over the last year. That’s according to a new report released by the Australian ...

This satellite image, acquired by the Landsat-8 satellite on 23 August 2013, takes us off the east coast of Australia where currents swirl in the water around corals. The Great Barrier Reef is the ...

A towering coral reef has emerged from the depths of Australia’s northern waters, reshaping what scientists thought they knew about the ocean floor. Rising 500 meters from the seabed—taller than the ...