The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system. It stretches over 2,300 kilometres along the coast of Queensland, Australia. Made up of nearly 3,000 reefs and 900 islands ...

Coral Reef Nightlife Becomes More Predatory With Artificial Light Dec. 18, 2024 — Artificial light can wake sleeping fish and attract predators, changing nighttime coral reef communities ...

Record ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaching “catastrophic” levels ...

The research team meticulously tracked the health of 462 coral colonies at the University of Sydney's Great Barrier Reef research station at One Tree Island over a period of 161 days. The results ...

Australia is a biodiversity hotbed, boasting thousands of unique species found nowhere else on Earth. Our landscapes host some of the most dense and vibrant ecosystems on the planet, shaped by ...

Conclusions that coral reefs will migrate to higher latitudes as they warm are equally unfounded, with the observations of tropical species appearing at high latitudes “necessary but not sufficient” ...

The monsoon trough extends across the base of Cape York Peninsula, and will drift northwards during today and tomorrow. A tropical low off the northeast coast will drift eastwards along the monsoon ...

Coral reef ecosystems are generally high in biodiversity, most often found in shallow tropical seas, and are threatened by factors including ocean acidification, global warming and sea level rise.

Using SECORE’s approach, we fertilize the eggs in the lab, culture the larvae for a few days and then settle them onto specialized tiles that can be planted back out on the reef. Collecting these ...

Reefs around the world have suffered from mass bleaching events for three consecutive years. Iconic reefs such as the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in the ...