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A whale shark near Ningaloo Reef off western Australia.

Whale shark hotspot discovered along the Great Barrier Reef

Edward Carver 19 Aug 2025
Fluorescing and bleached reef in New Caledonia in 2016.

Global coral bleaching now underway looks set to be largest on record

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Apr 2024

‘Corals dying’ as yet more bleaching hits heat-stressed Great Barrier Reef

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Mar 2024

With record ocean temps, is the Great Barrier Reef facing catastrophe?

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Oct 2023

NGOs block gillnet fishing across 100,000 sq km of Great Barrier Reef

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Mar 2022

Safe havens for coral reefs will disappear as oceans warm, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Feb 2022
A dugong (Dugong dugong) feeding on seagrass in Egypt. Image by Julien Willem via Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Seagrass-grazing dugongs and green sea turtles supercharge the seeds they eat

Carolyn Cowan 11 Aug 2021

Great Barrier Reef in danger: Don’t fight the diagnosis, fight the threats (commentary)

John Tanzer 21 Jul 2021

A mountain of a reef, taller than the Eiffel Tower, found on Great Barrier Reef

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 Oct 2020

As reef bleaching intensifies, lab-grown corals could help beat the heat

Johan Augustin 23 Jul 2020

Coral reef loss helps some fish grow bigger, but perhaps not for long

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Jun 2020

Great Barrier Reef suffers biggest bleaching event yet

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Apr 2020
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef near the Whitsunday Islands. Astronaut photograph ISS045-E-56257 was acquired on October 12, 2015, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using an 1150 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. Courtesy of NASA/JSC.

Protecting living corals could help defend the Great Barrier Reef from ocean acidification for decades

Ariana Remmel 6 Dec 2019

Models, maps, and citizen scientists working to save the Great Barrier Reef

Marianne Messina 14 May 2019
The Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Image by Christopher Brunner/ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0).

2018’s top 10 ocean news stories (commentary)

Douglas McCauley, Francis Joyce 24 Dec 2018

Deep reefs were not spared by 2016 mass bleaching event on Great Barrier Reef

Mongabay.com 19 Sep 2018

The Great Barrier Reef is losing its ability to bounce back from disturbances

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2018
Planet satellite image of coral off Belize's Lighthouse Reef. Taken March 28, 2018.

A global coral reef monitoring system is coming soon

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jun 2018

Sylvia Earle on why we must act now to save the oceans

Mike Gaworecki 15 May 2018

Australia to invest $379 million to protect the Great Barrier Reef

Mongabay.com 3 May 2018

DJ and ornithologists create wildlife music game

Erik Hoffner 21 Feb 2018

Reef bleaching five times more frequent now than in the 1980s, study finds

Mongabay.com 4 Jan 2018

Trending tree cover loss spikes again in Queensland

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2017

Climate change-induced bleaching decimating Great Barrier Reef

John Cannon 15 Mar 2017

Top 10 stories you should be aware of this World Oceans Day, according to Carl Safina

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jun 2016

Saving reef fish from the impacts of a hit film

Mike Gaworecki 23 May 2016

Biodiversity makes reef fish more resilient in the face of climate change, research confirms

Mike Gaworecki 16 May 2016

Global coral bleaching event hits Australia’s Great Barrier Reef hard

Mic Smith 1 Apr 2016

Good news! Some corals show surprising resilience to ocean acidification

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Oct 2015

Conservationists to send killer robots after destructive starfish

Jeremy Hance 8 Sep 2015

Snail scent repels starfish; may protect coral and Great Barrier Reef

Neelam Pereira 11 Aug 2015

Microplastic pollution a possible threat to Great Barrier Reef coral

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Jul 2015

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