Bleached corals stand near Heron Island off Queensland. Scientists are warning of devastating coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Australia's eastern state of Queensland. Diana ...

First Nations rangers from the world's biggest reef are learning coral spawning techniques in one of the largest restoration trials to date.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Coral populations from Australia's first "Coral IVF" trial on the Great Barrier Reef in 2016 have not only survived recent bleaching events, but are on track to reproduce and spawn ...

One Tree Island isn’t an easy place to get to. Part of the Great Barrier Reef, there is often just one short window each day when the tides are high enough for a small boat to cross the rampart of ...

The spectacular backdrop of this stunning YouTube clip does not detract from the epic battle for survival taking place between two powerful creatures. It shows a shark pursuing a stingray onto the ...

If you’ve ever wanted to own your own Pacific Ocean island, Delaware North is ready to give you that chance. The Buffalo-based global hospitality and concessions giant this week put up for sale three ...

It demonstrates that the onset of reef growth on the outer shelf was preceded by a rise in summer temperature from ~26° to ~28°C at around 700 thousand years ago (marine isotope stage 17). This ...

The Great Barrier Reef seen here in this NASA satellite image. Stretching along more than 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) of Australia's eastern coast is one of the world's most famous natural wonders ...

MELBOURNE, Australia: An 80-year-old cruise passenger has been found dead on a Great Barrier Reef island, a day after she was accidentally abandoned there by the ship’s crew. The luxury Coral ...

The Great Barrier Reef has been seriously damaged by too much ocean heat. According to University of Sydney: The damage is at catastrophic levels. And as stated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

The world off Australia’s northeast coast is magical yet besieged, a place of stunning colors in good times but ghostly white in bad ones. The bad have happened repeatedly in recent years as warming ...

Shark humor has its time and place, but not when I’m snorkeling somewhere called Shark Bay. At the Heron Island Research Station, a laboratory on the teardrop-shaped atoll 45 miles (72 km) off ...