In 2016 and 2017, marine heat waves caused by climate change resulted in mass bleaching, which killed about half of the corals on the Great Barrier Reef, along with many others around the world.

For coral reefs, climate change is an existential threat. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has endured seven mass bleaching events over the past 25 years. Five have occurred in the past eight years.

Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg describes the Great Barrier Reef as "the Manhattan of marine ecosystems”. Coral reefs are vitally important nursery grounds for fish and other marine life.

A northern and southern zone of the Great Barrier Reef could stay 1 degree Celsius cooler than surrounding areas into 2080 despite warming oceans. The finding, from a new study, provides hope ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: This is the Great Barrier Reef, and it's dying. Less than 20 years ago, the world's largest living structure looked like this, and this.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has suffered another mass bleaching event - the third in just five years. Warmer sea temperatures - particularly in February - are feared to have caused huge coral ...

news.com.au has teamed up with Queensland to celebrate the Australians working to protect the Great Barrier ... blowing facts and figures aside, Ms Smith said the inhabitants of the reef do ...

The Great Barrier Reef's ... knock-out punch' Amazing facts and one terrible truth about coral reefs Unesco's World Heritage Committee is due to consider adding the reef to its list of sites ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is home to a tremendous array of endangered species, some found nowhere else in the world. Renowned for its beautiful corals and water clarity, the reef was listed by ...

Photo: Queensland Sotheby's International Realty The owners are empty-nesters whose kids have left home ... included in the sale. With the Great Barrier Reef and a scattering of islands on ...

QUT data scientists, as part of an international study, have developed an enhanced statistical method to monitor the quality of water in streams and rivers flowing into the Great Barrier Reef.

Snorkelling in the ocean above a huge green sea turtle that's rummaging around corals of the Great Barrier Reef is the sort ...