Embark on a day trip to the stunning Lady Elliot Island, nestled on the Southern Great Barrier Reef. Perfectly accessible from the Gold Coast, this island offers a tropical escape with beautiful ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Use the catamaran ride out to Reef Magic’s pontoon to plan your day. Once you have your time for add-ons like scuba diving and helicopter tours, inquire about times for any free ...

It’s the largest coral reef system in the entire world and home to a plethora of underwater wildlife, but it also serves to protect the shore. After a beautiful and slightly bumpy catamaran cruise ...

The Great Barrier Reef – the world's largest reef system that's "one of the richest and most complex natural ecosystems on Earth" – is once again undergoing a mass coral bleaching event. Officials ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef faces critical danger from back-to-back bouts of extreme ocean heat. Ocean heat in the Coral Sea is at its highest in four centuries, scientists report in the Aug. 8 ...

A remarkable grand piano that survived being shipwrecked off Australia's Great Barrier Reef along with its owner has been ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over part of the Great Barrier Reef off Australia’s northeast coast on 1 April 2017. Extending more than 2000 km and covering an area of some 350 000 sq ...

Parts of the Great Barrer Reef have suffered the highest coral mortality on record, Australian research showed Tuesday, with scientists fearing the rest of it has suffered a similar fate. The ...

Parts of Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef, famed for its stunning colors and biodiversity, suffered the biggest decline of coral on record last year after a marine heatwave bleached vast swathes ...

Coral reefs are some of the most breathtaking and diverse ecosystems on our planet. They are mostly referred to as the "rainforests of the sea" due to their vast biodiversity. Coral reefs are not just ...

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 Atmospheric ...