Members of the Climate Council this week returned to one of the areas of the Great Barrier Reef that was worst affected by this year’s coral bleaching. What they found was far from encouraging.
A controversial plan to cull goats using introduced dingoes on a small Great Barrier Reef island has been blocked.
Limiting global warming to 1.5℃ already looks out of reach, so where do we go from here?
The ailing health of the Great Barrier Reef may be attracting more tourists, at least in the short term, with a survey showing many visitors were motivated to see it while they still have the chance.
Conservation group WWF-Australia is raising $100,000 to buy – and retire – a Great Barrier Reef shark fishing licence.
“The damage to this Australian icon has already been devastating.”
A lucky photographer captured these amazing photos of blacktip reef sharks beaching themselves in pursuit of a school of bait fish.
Scientists have pinpointed a gene in some algae that provides vital new insight into the mechanism of coral bleaching.
The recent severe bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef has also affected anemones, which provide homes for clownfish.
The annual mass coral spawning is one of the highlights of the Great Barrier Reef’s biological calendar.