Coral reefs may look similar at first glance, but their shapes, locations and structures reveal how they form – and how vulnerable they are.

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 ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

a) map shows the extend of the 2 regions (i-north, ii-south) of the GBR used in this study. b) background map shows the average rainfall annual distribution based on 30-year records (1961-1990) ...

It demonstrates that the onset of reef growth on the outer shelf was preceded by a rise in summer temperature from ~26° to ~28°C at around 700 thousand years ago (marine isotope stage 17). This ...

The Great Barrier Reef story begins much earlier than most people realize. There is evidence that the Great Barrier Reef is around 650,000 years old, though researchers estimate that the precursor to ...

The Australian summer just gone will be remembered as the moment when human-caused climate change struck hard. First came the drought, then deadly bushfires, and now about of coral bleaching on the ...

For the first time, scientists have viewed the deepest regions of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, discovered five undescribed species consisting of black corals and sponges, and recorded Australia ...

Google Street View’s reach already extends from the streets of Johannesburg to halls of the Palace of Versailles. Now the company is taking its cameras underwater to map Australia’s Great Barrier Reef ...