The Latest Breaking News from the Great Barrier Reef

Towering presence, missing minister as PM visits reef

One of Labor's tallest candidates has made a splash at the prime minister's Great Barrier Reef stop, while the spectre of a missing minister haunted the event.

AAP · Apr 9, 2025

Synchronised bleaching: Ningaloo and the Great Barrier Reef are bleaching in unison for the first time

This summer, an intense marine heatwave struck off northwestern Australia, driving sea surface temperatures up to 4°C above the summer average. The large mass of warm water has slowly moved south from the Kimberley region and through the Pilbara, leaving a wave of underwater destruction behind. Now Ningaloo Reef is…

The Conversation · Mar 24, 2025

Great Barrier Reef & Ningaloo Simultaneously Hit With ‘Heartbreaking’ Coral Bleaching

Severe and simultaneous coral bleaching has been found in both Western Australia's Ningaloo and the east coast's Great Barrier Reef.

Pedestrian.tv · Mar 23, 2025

Cool water from the deep could protect pockets of the Great Barrier Reef into the 2080s

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.

The Conversation · Nov 29, 2024

Coral spawning program hailed a great success for reef

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.

AAP · Nov 21, 2024

Parts of Great Barrier Reef record highest coral deaths due to heat, storms

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

Al Jazeera · Nov 19, 2024

Parts Of Great Barrier Reef Suffer Highest Coral Mortality On Record

Parts of the Great Barrer Reef have suffered the highest coral mortality on record, Australian research showed Tuesday, with scientists fearing the rest of it has suffered a similar fate.

International Business Times · Nov 19, 2024

Reef coral battling after bleaching, natural disasters

Coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef continues to struggle following extensive bleaching events which are increasing in frequency amid climate change.

AAP · Nov 19, 2024

Traditional owners and scientists worked together on ‘coral IVF’ projects. Here’s what we found

The Great Barrier Reef, which supports an estimated 64,000 jobs and has a social and economic value of around A$6.4 billion, is under threat due to human-induced climate change.

The Conversation · Nov 17, 2024

Bill Maher puts the fate of the Great Barrier Reef in the spotlight – but something’s missing from the soundbites

The Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg has told the US cable host its biggest threat is not the climate crisis, but do his claims stack up?

The Guardian - AU · Oct 23, 2024