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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

This summer, an intense marine heatwave struck off northwestern Australia, driving sea surface temperatures ... Now Ningaloo Reef is bleaching in earnest. The Great Barrier Reef is bleaching ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pat Hutchings is an authority on sea worms, not guns ... Hutchings helped set up seven years earlier on the northern Great Barrier Reef. Hutchings was preparing to help retrieve a storm-battered ...

Government data showed smaller patches of coral bleaching had also been spotted at the northern tip of the more famous Great Barrier Reef on ... The average sea surface temperature around ...

Government data showed smaller patches of coral bleaching had also been spotted at the northern tip of the more famous Great Barrier Reef on Australia ... The average sea surface temperature ...