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The Great Barrier Reef has been nominated for the United Nations’ Champions of the Earth Lifetime Achievement Award, a prize usually reserved for humans. But for two young Reef Guardians from Cairns, ...

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. Officials ...

Explore the Whitsunday Islands over three epic days! Experience adventures from relaxing at Whitehaven Beach to soaring above the Great Barrier Reef and witnessing Heart Reef.

The widespread heat stress on the Great Barrier Reef, causing huge bleaching events among the corals, has been revealed in new satellite images. A map, shared by the NASA Earth Observatory, uses ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over part of the Great Barrier Reef off Australia’s northeast coast on 1 April 2017. Extending more than 2000 km and covering an area of some 350 000 sq ...

Parts of the Great Barrer Reef have suffered the highest coral mortality on record, Australian research showed Tuesday, with scientists fearing the rest of it has suffered a similar fate. The ...

The Great Barrier Reef will not be recommended for inclusion on the “in danger” list this year by the United Nation’s world heritage body, even as it warned that the natural wonder is still under ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades of record-keeping, Australian authorities say.