It's currently facing another. In 2016, one-third of the 3,863 reefs in the Great Barrier Reef system went through a catastrophic die-off after an extreme heatwave. A bleaching event the next year ...
For coral reefs, climate change is an existential threat. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has endured seven mass bleaching ...
Parts of the Great Barrer Reef have suffered the highest coral mortality on record, Australian researchers say, and they fear ...
In one northern section of the reef, about a third of hard coral had died, the "largest annual decline" in 39 years of ...
Indeed, one lesson is that despite today's weighty threats, the Great Barrier Reef won't easily crumble. It has, after all, toughed it out through catastrophic change before. And all kinds of ...
The Great Barrier Reef is rare in that most of its threats come in the form of onshore industry. Before the recent push to expand coal ... water and energy we need to be able to live and thrive after ...
and to avoid impacts on protected species and World Heritage Areas like the Great Barrier Reef. The Center has filed a lawsuit to challenge Ex-Im's Australia funding and to establish that all U.S.
the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) gave the go-ahead. It says the works ensure boats and ships "can safely and reliably access ports and marinas". It comes one week after flood ...