A new set of samples of the Great Barrier Reef has raised new concerns about the danger posed to the reef by climate change. New research surrounding the temperatures in Australia around the coral ...

For the past nine months, the world has repeatedly smashed heat records on land. But February marked a particularly unsettling record for the ocean: Average global sea surfaces climbed to the hottest ...

From across the world to right here in New York are lessons we can learn from studying climate change in the Great Barrier Reef. I'm told it's all about taking action. There is no place quite like the ...

The Bureau of Meteorology this week declared a 70% chance of an El Niño developing this year. This raises concern for the health of the Great Barrier Reef, which is under continuing threat from ...

Many tipping elements are now well-known: the Amazon rainforest, the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

The Great Barrier Reef, a global treasure and the largest coral reef system on Earth, has suffered its most widespread coral ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ocean temperatures in the Great Barrier Reef hit their highest level in 400 years over the past decade, according to researchers who warned that the reef likely won’t survive if ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — 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. But due ...

Australia's famed Great Barrier Reef has suffered its most widespread coral bleaching on record, according to a government report released Wednesday that warns the natural wonder is in dire health.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Award-winning American environmental photographer Gary Braasch died on Monday while snorkelling at the northern end of the Great Barrier Reef. Braasch, 70, from Portland, Oregon, ...

A new fossil fuel site approved for development off Western Australia's coast is estimated to contribute 876 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions over the course of its lifetime, according ...