The Nassau grouper is drawn by the winter moon, between December and March, to special places where hundreds of the cryptic ...

A global call-out has been announced for designers to re-imagine the planned Great Barrier Reef Aquarium in Townsville – to rival some of the best designed aquariums in the world.

What it's like to night dive on the Great Barrier Reef Stretching almost 1,500 miles, the Great Barrier Reef is so vast that just 20% has been surveyed. With tourism funding millions in conservation ...

The warming climate is putting all living things under serious stress. Habitats are being lost, and plants and animals are trying to survive under increasingly dire circumstances. And the world's ...

Rohan Lloyd received a NLA Summer Scholarship in 2015 to research the Royal Commission into Petroleum Drilling on the Great Barrier Reef. At the end of the 1960s, there was every expectation the Great ...

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are the largest fish in the world and are endangered but are hard to study because they’re largely solitary creatures that roam great distances. There are only about 30 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Inside a bold — and controversial — effort to cool the water around this beloved ecosystem. An Australian research vessel testing a localized form of climate engineering — artificial modification of ...