Western Australia’s Ningaloo has experienced the highest level of heat stress ever recorded, while coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef has been detected from Townsville to Cape York ...

By contrast, corals on the Great Barrier Reef tend to spawn between October and December. For the reef to recover quickly, it needs yearly influxes of new coral recruits. But if corals are ...

Australia’s two world heritage listed-reefs, Ningaloo on the west coast and the Great Barrier Reef on the east, have been simultaneously struck by severe coral bleaching, a phenomenon that experts ...

As climate change and human activity continue to threaten coral reefs, destinations such as the Great Barrier Reef are turning to coral reef assisted recovery initiatives to boost eco-system ...

When an intense marine heat wave sent ocean temperatures soaring in 2023 and 2024, coral reefs around the world bleached. New research on the Great Barrier Reef’s One Tree Island shows that more ...

The Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority commissioned Deloitte Access Economics to undertake a study of the ...

See where coral in the world's largest coral reef system has been bleached to death. By Lauren E. James This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine.

The extraordinary synchronous spawning of the coral polyps that make up the Japan-sized Great Barrier Reef was partly discovered in Lizard Island’s waters. Station research has generated at ...

Travelers can also enjoy an array of local brews at Cairns' Barrier Reef Brewing Co. For those who plan to linger farther south in Townsville, Australian restaurants like A Touch of Salt ...