Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem—perhaps except the thing that matters most.

The ocean is essential to life on Earth. It helps regulate our climate, provides oxygen and food, but the size of marine populations declined by almost half between 1970 and 2012. Unless something ...

The Great Barrier Reef story begins much earlier than most people realize. There is evidence that the Great Barrier Reef is around 650,000 years old, though researchers estimate that the precursor to ...

For scuba-divers, nothing can quite compare to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, which is one of the seven natural wonders of the world. It’s home to more than 1,600 species of fish, about 600 types of ...

A diver moves in the southern area of the Great Barrier Reef. Due to significantly increased water temperatures, the fifth mass bleaching of corals in just eight years has been confirmed in this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sean Fennessy/Travel + Leisure A green sea turtle near Lady Elliot Island. We were 10,000 feet above the Pacific, in a tiny Cessna ...

Fiji comprises about 844 islands and islets, and is thought to include over 10,000 km2 of reef. The Fiji Barrier Reef marine ecoregion includes a diversity of marine habitats, including estuaries, ...

The Great Barrier Reef – the world's largest reef system that's "one of the richest and most complex natural ecosystems on Earth" – is once again undergoing a mass coral bleaching event. Officials ...

Daniel Patrick Harrison receives funding from the The Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program which is funded by the partnership between the Australian Governments Reef Trust and the Great Barrier ...

And where to stay when visiting this natural wonder.