Coral cover across the Great Barrier Reef has experienced its largest annual decline since records began, a report from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) has found. AIMS surveyed the health of 124 coral reefs between August 2024 and May 2025, finding that 48% of reefs underwent a decline in percentage coral cover.
This video shows a sea turtle moving slowly along a coral reef in the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. The turtle stays close to the ocean floor, using the reef structure as shelter and ...
New research adds to our understanding of how rapidly rising sea levels due to climate change foreshadow the end of the Great Barrier Reef as we know it. The findings suggest the reef can withstand ...
EurekAlert!: How did the early Great Barrier Reef manage rapid environmental change?
University of Sydney One Tree Island Research Station on the southern Great Barrier Reef. Fossilised cores were taken from this part of the reef. As the modern Great Barrier Reef emerged after the ...