New research led by the University of Sydney adds to our understanding of how rapidly rising sea levels due to climate change ...

Importantly, this indicates that even the upper sea level rise bounds are within the survival limits of resilient reef ...

UNESCO’s comments confirm what experts already know: despite substantial money and effort, threats to the Great Barrier Reef ...

Global warming has severely damaged huge sections of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, according to a new paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The paper’s authors warn that the resil ...

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However, the Australian government, among others, dispute the severity of the damage. "We have to put ... warming poses a huge risk to the Great Barrier Reef. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

The Australian government on Wednesday turned down a proposal for a new open-cut coal mine near the Great Barrier Reef, invoking environmental laws and the risk of “irreversible damage.” The ...

The Great Barrier Reef is under critical pressure, with warming sea temperatures and mass coral bleaching events threatening to destroy the remarkable ecology, biodiversity, and beauty of the ...

"This region escaped with minor damage in two earlier bleaching events in 1998 and 2002, but this time around it has been badly affected." In one part of the northern Great Barrier Reef ...

The Great Barrier Reef has been seriously damaged by too much ocean heat. According to University of Sydney: The damage is at catastrophic levels. And as stated by the National Oceanic and ...

In this image provided by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, the Chinese carrier Shen Neng 1 is hard aground on the Great Barrier Reef near Great Keppel Island tourist resort, Australia ...

SYDNEY—An environmental group filed a lawsuit that seeks to stop a large gas project off Australia’s coast, arguing that it would further damage the Great Barrier Reef by leading to the ...