By Megan Strauss Scientists have layered hundreds of satellite images to reveal more than 1,000 previously uncharted coral ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is experiencing yet another mass coral bleaching event due to heat, the country’s government confirmed Friday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Assorted reef fish swim above a finger coral colony as it grows on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Cairns, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A school of fish swim above a staghorn (Acropora cervicornis) coral colony as it grows on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of ...

The offspring of a common coral branching species set up a new home up to 100 kilometers or more from their parents in one of ...

Somewhere between 200 and 3,000 metres below the surface of the Coral Sea, in canyons and on seamounts that had never been ...

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.

When climate scientists look to the future to determine what the effects of climate change may be, they use computer models to simulate potential outcomes such as how precipitation will change in a ...

Record ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaching “catastrophic” levels, a new study has ...

The diversity of life amidst Australian coral reefs is mind-boggling. The Great Barrier Reef, for example, has coral that soars 1,600 feet up from the ocean floor and is rife with sea snakes, urchins, ...

The southern Great Barrier Reef is suffering from extensive coral bleaching due to heat stress, the reef’s managers said Wednesday, raising fears that a seventh mass bleaching event could be unfolding ...