A culling programme has succeeded in protecting key areas of the Great Barrier Reef from voracious coral-eating starfish. Scientists who analysed the outcome say the effort should be expanded to ...

With too few tritons on the reef, crown-of-thorns starfish populations can explode, jeopardizing the living coral that makes up reefs. Covered with long, venomous spikes, the crown-of-thorns ...

Environmental DNA, or eDNA, can help us detect species by the traces they leave behind in their surroundings. This groundbreaking tool is transforming ...

Crown-of-thorns starfish populations are again flourishing along the Great Barrier Reef. Symon Dworjanyn is a professor of marine ecology at Southern Cross university. "Crown-of-thorns starfish ...

The Great Barrier Reef experienced its sixth widespread coral bleaching event in nine years, the latest “summer snapshot” has ...

Mass coral mortality is the worst it has ever been. Some experts say neither side of politics is prepared to reckon with reality.

SYDNEY, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Australian scientists have reported the sixth mass coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef since 2016. In a report published on Wednesday night, scientists from ...

paints a picture of a tough summer season for the Reef, which was impacted by marine heatwaves, Tropical Cyclone Alfred, outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish, freshwater inundation and coral ...