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

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.

SYDNEY - Parts of the Great Barrer Reef have suffered the highest coral mortality on record ... world’s largest living structure, the Great Barrier Reef is a 2,300km expanse of tropical corals ...

The annual coral spawning event, triggered by the November full moon, sees the Great Barrier Reef’s magnificent corals burst into life in an underwater ‘snowstorm’ by releasing trillions of ...

Some northern parts of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered their biggest annual decline in coral cover in the 39 years of a long-running marine monitoring program. The preliminary report from the ...

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 decline in 39 years. Preliminary results ...

Parts of the Great Barrier 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.

SYDNEY, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- Coral coverage has declined across the northern region of Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR) as a result of climate change and cyclones, government scientists said on ...