The Great Barrier Reef is vast and spectacular. But repeated mass coral bleachings, driven by high ocean temperatures, are threatening the survival of coral colonies which are the backbone of the reef.
High coral cover amid intense heatwaves and bleaching? Here’s how both can be true on the Great Barrier Reef.
Inoculating coral with microalgae that have been deliberately evolved to tolerate high temperatures, could slow losses caused by mass bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef and elsewhere.
An unexpected abundance of coral has been found in the waters off Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
Four years ago Australia’s first offshore coral nursery was planted. Now, the corals are all grown up and have spawned for the first time.
Photographed at night, Great Barrier Reef corals get their glow up.
Coral is making a comeback across much of the Great Barrier Reef but the record resurgence could be quickly undone, scientists warn.
Great Barrier Reef bleaching occurred on over 90 per cent of reefs this summer, report reveals
The 400-year-old coral structure has been named Muga dhambi.
Fifty additional species to the Living Coral Biobank Project, dwarf minke whales, coral surveys and a new species discovery mark inaugural citizen science voyage.