Sought-after pieces of coral are sold all around the world, including at rave-like trade shows known as "frag swaps". The ...

Day 100 – and we’re camping in one of the most breathtaking places on Earth: the Great Barrier Reef. Surrounded by ...

The crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS), infamous for its appetite for live coral, has long been blamed for the decline of ...

A new study links grazing halo patterns in coral reefs, as well as those in other patchy habitats, to the spatial patterns of the shelter habitat itself. The researchers found that grazing halos are ...

Coral reef halos, visible from satellites, can indicate reef health by reflecting predator presence and coral layout.

But the life Billy leads on the reef is far ... Purple and yellow Coral at the Great Barrier Reef.(ABC News: Chris Lewis) As scientists, Jenny and John are all too aware of them.

A team of scientists tracked more than 400 corals that experienced intense ocean heat last year. More than half the corals died.

After the recent mass bleaching events, Veron dived in multiple areas of the Great Barrier ... parts of reef that are teeming with life. But there are also vast areas of coral graveyards that ...

Bleached coral dies when exposed to heat stress for too long, threatening the bountiful marine ecosystem that depends on it ...

published on April 16 by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, states: “Results of aerial surveys and in-water monitoring to date suggest the Reef has experienced widespread coral ...

To say that the Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef may be understating things; the Australian government notes that it is "the only living organic collective visible from Earth's ...

I see coral – some bleached and some coming back to life. Dark blue branches ... along with the 9000 other species that call the Great Barrier Reef home. Earlier, on the two-hour catamaran ...