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 ...

Australian scientists have reported the sixth mass coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef since 2016. In a ...

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.

Dr Uthicke said they then settled on areas of coral rubble ... would eat juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish in aquariums, scientists went out on the reef and surveyed the crabs and CoTS present.

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 ...