The “Coral Greenhouse” contains 20 “reef guardian” sculptures. As they become covered by coral, they’ll attract new marine life to the Great Barrier Reef.

If temperatures warm by 3°C, the researchers found that the Great Barrier Reef could surpass 30°C. This has already been established as an important threshold for corals as this is the ...

A full quarter of the Great Barrier Reef suffered severe bleaching—which means more than 60 percent of the reef’s corals ejected their symbiotic zooxanthellae algae —changing from a ...

This year, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef was hit by another mass bleaching. Scientists say the reef isn’t dying, but it also isn’t thriving. With only about 100 of the 3,000 individual ...

The Great Barrier Reef is home to an incredible amount of biodiversity, with over 9,000 known species of marine life National Geographic Society. However, there are likely many more species that ...

The Great Barrier Reef: Australia’s National Treasure Located in the Coral Sea off Queensland, the Great Barrier Reef encompasses more than 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands.

The Great Barrier Reef seen here in this NASA satellite image. AFP via Getty Images Stretching along more than 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) of Australia's eastern coast is one of the world's ...