Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority began a study last week to determine how extensive it might be and have already found extensive pulverized ...

A COLOSSAL bleaching event has “cooked” our iconic Great Barrier Reef and destroyed much of it forever, a devastating new study has found. The results have prompted scientists to confirm that ...

Rows of tanks filled with liquid nitrogen sit in temperature-controlled chambers at Sydney's Taronga zoo, cradling parts of ...

The Great Barrier Reef has been hit hard by rising temperatures ... Yasi — the worst storm to hit the area in recent years — destroyed vast swaths of coral in a matter of hours in 2011.

Those corals grow quickly after disturbances but are very easily destroyed by storms ... to some of the stressors that the Great Barrier Reef has faced over and over and over again over the ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has a silent, largely unheralded protector: salt marshes. These muddy patches just inland from coastal mangrove forests play crucial roles in keeping the reef as ...

Coral fields destroyed by weather and bleaching have ... Some fields on the Great Barrier Reef were significantly damaged in Cyclone Yasi in 2011, and the reef has suffered four bleaching events ...

New research led by the University of Sydney adds to our understanding of how rapidly rising sea levels due to climate change ...

During the past two years, Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef suffered its largest die-off ever recorded -- with an average of 67 percent of corals in one area declared dead, scientists said on ...

The Great Barrier Reef – the world's largest reef system that's "one of the richest and most complex natural ecosystems on Earth" – is once again undergoing a mass coral bleaching event.

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