In 2000, biologists on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef took tiny tissue samples from 76 sea cucumbers, put them back on the ...

If climate change continues apace, 96 percent of shallow coral reef ecosystems may collapse within 50 years, including in ...

Almost sixty years after his first visit to the Great Barrier Reef, David Attenborough embarks on a personal journey of discovery to understand how the Reef was created and meets the animals that call ...

Researchers are worried about the impact the strongest-known El Niño will have on the Great Barrier Reef, and whether anything can be done to avert the World Heritage Area’s demise ...

Scientists are listening to a mayday from the Great Barrier Reef. The message is bleak. In a new study, a team analyzed records of coral skeletons. Their chemical signatures hint at the past ...

Coral reefs are renowned for their beauty as well as their diversity. But not many people know that most of the diversity found around coral reefs is completely hidden to the naked eye. Welcome to the ...

Almost all of the world’s shallow-water coral reefs are at risk of collapse by 2075, with climate change the biggest threat.

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 ...