Australians often head to the Pacific or Asia to find the perfect island escape, but our own islands offer beaches as good, or better, than anything overseas.

Located at Nathan Benderson Park near the popular University Town Center shopping and dining district — along the ...

Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem—perhaps except the thing that matters most.

The world's largest living structure is vast, spellbinding—and more at risk than ever. Here's why visiting Australia's Great Barrier Reef is actually a good thing.

At least six great white sharks have been tracked in the warm waters off Florida since New Year's Eve. The sharks are tagged by the research group OCEARCH, which monitors their migration patterns.

Tanveer Dhillon had a close encounter with a great white shark while diving off the coast in Australia on Sunday, Dec. 21 XV STUDIO / 500px/Getty Diver Tanveer Dhillon, 39, has spoken about how he ...

Diver Tanveer Dhillon, 39, has spoken about how he came face-to-face with a great white shark on Sunday, Dec. 21 "I see a great white grinning straight at me … my heart was in my mouth,” he recalled ...

Blackstone Inc has agreed to buy Hamilton Island, a major resort hub in the heart of Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef. The private equity giant announced the deal Tuesday, subject to regulatory ...

An 11.5-foot, nearly 800-pound great white shark named Ripple is breaking new ground by venturing deep into the Gulf of Mexico. His movements mark some of the first documented tagged white sharks to ...

University of Sydney marine biologists have identified a devastating combination of coral bleaching and a rare necrotic wasting disease that wiped out large, long-lived corals on the Great Barrier ...

A shark unfortunately “took a wrong turn” and got stranded in shallow water along the Cape, leading to the animal’s death earlier this week. Meanwhile, local shark researchers recently helped tag a ...