The Latest Breaking News from the Great Barrier Reef

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has again raised grave fears for the future of the Great Barrier Reef, highlighting the problems of water pollution, climate change and unsustainable fishing.

The Anohni and the Johnsons singer is collaborating with marine scientists for two special shows at Sydney’s Vivid festival that will show the reef’s plight

Polluted runoff is still smothering the Great Barrier Reef, our first national assessment of water quality trends in Australian rivers has revealed. The problem on the reef is getting worse, not better, despite efforts to improve farming practices and billions of dollars committed by governments to water-quality improvements.

Exclusive: Documents seen by Guardian Australia show a sustained strategy approved by environment minister Tanya Plibersek

A marine heatwave has caused "catastrophic" damage to the Great Barrier Reef but another region is also suffering the impacts of rising ocean temperatures.

Experts are bracing for the impact of another hot summer on the Great Barrier Reef after it suffered its worst coral bleaching of 2024.

For coral reefs, climate change is an existential threat. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has endured seven mass bleaching events over the past 25 years. Five have occurred in the past eight years.

Scientists have used an Australian-made coral restoration technique called Coral IVF to boost the outcome of the Great Barrier Reef's annual coral spawning.

Up to 72 percent of coral found dead on 12 of 19 surveyed reefs in the north of the world’s largest living structure.