the Great Barrier Reef lies in the clear blue waters off the northeast coast of Australia. Spanning 14 degrees of latitude, this complex reef system is not only the greatest expanse of coral in the ...
Located off the coast of Queensland, Australia, the reef is home to thousands of species of marine life, including over 1500 species of fish and 400 types of coral. It is considered one of the ...
A Unesco heritage committee on Tuesday stopped short of listing Australia’s Great Barrier Reef as a site that is “in danger” but warned the world’s biggest coral reef ecosystem remained ...
In the coastal seas episode, we see the devastating scenes of coral bleaching – how whole reef ecosystems which once teamed with life, are now dead, white and derelict. But what exactly is coral ...
But professor Terry Hughes, one of Australia’s foremost coral reef scientists, said bleaching events were now happening so frequently that reefs were struggling to recover. “The reef is no ...
where trillions of eggs and sperm were released by multiple coral species on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, while diving at night by torchlight. That memory came back to him years later after a ...
Postdoctoral researcher Dr Gemma Galbraith has been awarded a Churchill Fellowship for her work to further knowledge of Australia’s deep coral reefs. Picture: Supplied. Motivated by global ...
Climate change-driven heat and cyclones have caused a large chunk of the Great Barrier Reef to drop in health, with some areas reporting the largest coral ... It’s not just Australia feeling ...