Australia has signed a world-first global pledge to protect climate-resilient coral reefs.Australia signed the commitment at ...

In total, the reef system covers approximately 132,900 square miles (344,400 square kilometres), which makes it roughly the same size as Japan. In fact, it’s so large that it can be seen from space – ...

A survey published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications analyzed the wide-reaching extent of “Third Global Coral ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is suffering another mass bleaching event, the reef’s managers confirmed Friday, the result of soaring ocean temperatures caused by the global climate crisis and ...

A towering coral reef has emerged from the depths of Australia’s northern waters, reshaping what scientists thought they knew about the ocean floor. Rising 500 meters from the seabed—taller than the ...

A NASA airborne mission designed to transform our understanding of Earth’s valuable and ecologically sensitive coral reefs has set up shop in Australia for a two-month investigation of the Great ...

With NOAA confirming late last month that more than 83% of the planet’s reefs have been hit by extreme ocean heat since January 2023, scientists are finding that even the most resilient of Australia’s ...

Kate Quigley receives funding from the Australian Research Council in the form of the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) and holds a joint position as Principal Research Scientist at ...