A drop in shipping emissions has caused a surge in warming at the Great Barrier Reef, fuelling calls for drastic actions such ...

Ningaloo and some remote northern reefs had largely escaped the worst effects of coral bleaching – but now a severe marine ...

Ningaloo and some remote northern reefs had largely escaped the worst effects of coral bleaching – but now a severe marine heatwave is taking its toll.

Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land ...

A Horsfield’s Bronze Cuckoo (Chalcites basalis), a bird that has never been documented in the Philippines before, has been ...

Cores taken from six-metre high stony corals in the Coral Sea can be analysed to identify yearly ocean temperatures going back to the 1700s. The corals also show spikes in carbon and plutonium ...

A two-way sharing alliance between the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) researchers and Indigenous ranger groups ...

On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they've been studied, you'd think we've ...

As we see the stars align one can’t help but wonder if the same sentiments, events, and alignments now coalescing are not ...

Soft corals, which are members of the class Octocorallia, are major components of marine ecosystems, including coral reefs.

Tropical coral reefs encrust the coastlines of islands and continents near Earth’s equator but this zone, which has offered sufficient light and warmth for corals to evolve over hundreds of millions ...

Understanding how far Great Barrier Reef corals are from their parents could be key to identifying and protecting at-risk ...