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

The Great Barrier Reef should be added to the list of world heritage sites that ... square miles and home to more than 1,500 species of fish and over 400 species of hard corals, the Great Barrier ...

New research reveals significant transformations in fish communities on the Great Barrier Reef, the World's largest coral reef ecosystem. Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes ...

The reef is home to a wide variety of natural life, with 600 types of coral and 1,625 fish species alone ... recommended that the Great Barrier Reef be added to the list of at-risk world heritage ...

Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the face of climate change and other human-caused pressures, a ...

Their findings show Great Barrier Reef fish communities differ substantially from those of the 1990s, and the pace of change has increased. The findings raise questions around how long-known ...