This story appears in the May 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Not far beneath the surface of the Coral Sea, where the Great Barrier Reef lives, parrotfish teeth grind against rock ...

The Great Barrier Reef is home to an incredible amount of biodiversity, with over 9,000 known species of marine life National Geographic Society. However, there are likely many more species that ...

This story appears in the October 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Its Australian cousin, the Great Barrier Reef, is great indeed at 1,429 miles long—the biggest structure created ...

In the spring of 2024, the National Geographic Explorer, Alex Schnell (@alex.schnell), was exploring the waters of the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of northeastern Australia, to hunt for crabs.

Does last summer’s mass coral bleaching event sound a death knell for Australia’s beloved Great Barrier Reef? “Not on my watch!” is the message coming from the army of heartbroken, but resolute, ...

The images, which were shot in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of northeastern Australia, come from an upcoming National Geographic documentary series "Secrets of the Octopus".

This story appears in the February 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... into an artificial reef that would lure divers and fishermen to Key West. People around the world have long ...

In 2016 and 2017, marine heat waves caused by climate change resulted in mass bleaching, which killed about half of the corals on the Great Barrier Reef ... withdrew its National Energy Guarantee ...

Green-eyed tree frogs are abundant in the rugged wet tropics of northeast Queensland, near the Great Barrier Reef. Their population is healthy in the region's lower elevations, but, for unknown ...

He is also the managing director of the NGO ‘Great Barrier Reef Legacy’ which is a group of experts ... Australia is hosted by Chrissie Goldrick (Editor-in-chief at Australian Geographic) and produced ...