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 ...

Ancient Temperature Triggers Reveal How It All Began It demonstrates that the onset of reef growth on the outer shelf was ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the world's largest coral reef system, visible from space.

Parts of Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef, famed for its stunning colors and biodiversity, suffered the biggest decline of coral on record last year after a marine heatwave bleached vast swathes ...

Unusually warm ocean temperatures have turned corals white on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in the first-ever mass bleaching under the cooling conditions created by the La Niña weather pattern. An ...