WASHINGTON (AP) — Ocean temperatures in the Great Barrier Reef hit their highest level in 400 years over the past decade, according to researchers who warned that the reef likely won’t survive if ...

An international team of marine scientists has identified and officially named four species of algae new to science, challenging previous taxonomical assumptions within the Porolithon genus. The ...

THE GREAT Barrier Reef is a natural marvel. Spanning 2,300km along the north-east coast of Australia, this vast ecosystem boasts hundreds of species of multicoloured corals across an area roughly the ...

It demonstrates that the onset of reef growth on the outer shelf was preceded by a rise in summer temperature from ~26° to ~28°C at around 700 thousand years ago (marine isotope stage 17). This ...

For the past nine months, the world has repeatedly smashed heat records on land. But February marked a particularly unsettling record for the ocean: Average global sea surfaces climbed to the hottest ...

Scientists are sounding an alarm after a new study finds coral reef temperatures have reached their highest in at least four centuries, per an article published in the New York Times. According to the ...

The widespread heat stress on the Great Barrier Reef, causing huge bleaching events among the corals, has been revealed in new satellite images. A map, shared by the NASA Earth Observatory, uses ...

Deeper parts of the threatened Great Barrier Reef are protected against climate change, a new study has found—but they won't be for long. If climate change continues, researchers from the universities ...

Both aerial and in-water surveys have shown that the southern section of the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing extensive coral bleaching. Surveys have also shown “limited bleaching” in the northern ...

Kate Quigley receives funding from the Australian Research Council in the form of the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) and holds a joint position as Principal Research Scientist at ...

We made the Great Barrier Reef our home. No phones, no fences—just tides, fire, and freedom. The reef gave us food, shelter, and a new way to see the world. This is life at the edge of the wild, where ...

A form of coral known as the "bent sea rod" experiencing bleaching off Florida's coast in 2014. Credit: US Geological Survey Scientists in Australia have observed unprecedented coral bleaching across ...