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.

A new study has determined that the success of measures to protect the Great Barrier Reef averted a potential major ...

At sea, everything depends on your anchor. When it dragged in the middle of the night, they woke up nearly on the reef. And ...

T he best things come in pairs. From Tom and Jerry to peaches and cream, it’s often the combination of two contrasting ...

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 ...

It’s the largest living structure on Earth, 3,000 individual reefs, 900 islands, 1,430 miles, and it may be collapsing. Alas, The Great Barrier Reef Annual Summary Report of Coral Reef Conditions, ...

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 ...

Thanks to the dire condition of the Earth's coral reefs, the planet has now reached its first tipping point for human-caused climate change, according to a new report by scientists in Europe. The ...

News stories suggesting “the Great Barrier Reef — the aquatic wonder off Australia’s coast — is in grave peril” are highly deceptive, explains Bjorn Lomborg in The Wall Street Journal. “Australian ...

Speaking in Indiana on July 29, 2025, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, Lee Zeldin, and Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, detailed moves to repeal the 2009 Obama-Biden ‘endangerment’ ...

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 ...