The hard version of coral polyps produces limestone that is used to form layer after layer of a rigid coral skeleton. Groups ...

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Entrance to the Palais des Expositions in Nice, known as La Baleine for the United Nations Ocean Conference. The documentary film will scre ...

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 ...

Importantly, this indicates that even the upper sea level rise bounds are within the survival limits of resilient reef ...

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

Rows of tanks filled with liquid nitrogen sit in temperature-controlled chambers at Sydney's Taronga zoo, cradling parts of the Great Barrier Reef's diverse and magnificent corals frozen in time.

In a new TED Talk, the executive director of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation shared new scalable technologies that are ...

Bleaching damage on the corals of the Great Barrier Reef near Queensland, Australia. Credit: GREG TORDA/ARC CENTRE CORAL/REX/Shutterstock Australia's Great Barrier Reef is under serious threat as ...

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