When you swim through the azure waters of the Great Barrier Reef, there is one creature on the seafloor that's almost ...

Zeke Hausfather’s call for governments to prepare for the developing super El Niño should extend to ecosystems that have been weakened by repeated climate extremes (see Nature 657, 858; 2026 ). The ...

The reef’s record coral cover should end the alarms that ecologists routinely sound over its health. An ecosystem that has ...

Cruise Whitsundays has reopened Reefworld as an overnight-only pontoon, available exclusively to Reefsleep and Reefsuite guests.

They spend three days camping in the middle of the Great Barrier Reef with minimal supplies, relying on what they can catch for food. Sharks, sea snakes and other predators are already surrounding the ...

The Great Barrier Reef hosts the Great Barrier Reef Ocean Swim at Moore Reef on 17 October 2026, giving Cairns a scheduled ...

A weak ridge extends over the north Queensland waters. East to southeasterly below 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres through the Capricorn Channel around midday. Please be awareWind and wave ...

Australia’s marine scientists recently released their annual audit of the Great Barrier Reef, and it contains news you almost certainly haven’t heard: coral cover held steady or increased across most ...

Great Barrier Reef stretches along the north?east coast of Australia as a continuous marine region of coral reefs, islands and shallow seas, with Cairns acting as one of its best?known gateways. It ...

'A recently burned forest where young trees have regrown is not equivalent to one filled with mature redwoods. The same is true for reefs,' writes an L.A. Times reader.