Two British tourists, a 46-year-old male and his 17-year-old son, drowned, while a 37-year-old Australian male is fighting ...

To say that the Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef ... Global warming is a more difficult challenge: rising sea temperatures are causing mass coral bleaching—episodes in ...

Dugongs and sea turtles swim in the waters around the island. Part of the outer Great Barrier Reef, Wheeler Reef lies some 40 nautical miles off the coast of Townsville. Wheeler Reef is off the beaten ...

The British tourists were caught by strong currents on Sunday and dragged out to sea while swimming at a beach in a renowned tourist spot at the southern extremity of the Great Barrier Reef.

Head to Lady Elliot Island, at the Great Barrier Reef's southern tip. It's a prime spot for snorkeling and diving-and an ...

A 37-year-old Australian man from Monto, a town some 150km inland, was also swept into the sea during the incident ... to the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef. The area attracts large ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is home to ... beautiful corals and water clarity, the reef was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Area in 1981. Several reef species, including dugongs and loggerhead ...

As long as people have been visiting the Great Barrier Reef ... A giant clam lives at the bottom of the sea floor at Opal Reef.(ABC: Chris Lewis) "That doesn't diminish what we think the threats ...

Most corals are colonial animals - superorganisms comprising lots of smaller organisms - made up of multitudes sea anemone-like ... Guldberg describes the Great Barrier Reef as "the Manhattan ...

Many visitors say the Great Barrier ... of fish, sea turtles and humpback whales, Cairns' reefs are teeming with wildlife. Known locally as the Outer Barrier Reef, these reefs are ideal for ...