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Great Barrier Reef

The latest news and comment on the world's largest coral reef system, the Great Barrier Reef

June 2024

  • 240627 Great Barrier Reef Unesco thumbnail

    Who says the Great Barrier Reef is not ‘in danger’?

    UNESCO … and Gary the crab
  • Bleached and dead coral around Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef.

    ‘Most of it was dead’: scientists discover one of Great Barrier Reef’s worst coral bleaching events

    Analysis of high-resolution drone imagery concludes 97% of corals died at a Lizard Island reef between March and June this year

    • Australia news live
      Labor says ‘no mandated sanction’ after senator crosses floor – as it happened

    • Set more ambitious climate targets to save Great Barrier Reef, Unesco urges Australia

    • One man dead and two rescued after yacht capsizes on Great Barrier Reef

May 2024

  • Reef scientist Prof Terry Hughes dives over bleached and dead staghorn coral off Heron Island.

    I weep for the corals, but what I saw on the Great Barrier Reef gives me hope

    Kerrie Foxwell-Norton
  • Bruce Lehrmann outside the federal court in Sydney

    Australia news live
    Lawyers granted more time to consider appeal – as it happened

April 2024

  • A snorkeller above bleached and dead staghorn coral off Heron Island

    Great Barrier Reef’s worst bleaching leaves giant coral graveyard: ‘It looks as if it has been carpet bombed’

  • Steve Backshall, the naturalist, scuba dives on the reefs of the Maldives for the BBC’s Our Changing Planet.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Scientists’ experiment is ‘beacon of hope’ for coral reefs on brink of global collapse

  • Fish swimming near bleached and dead coral around Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef

    Extreme coral bleaching could spell worst summer on record for Great Barrier Reef, authority says

  • Scientists have recorded widespread bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef as global heating creates a fourth planet-wide bleaching event

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    Aerial video shows mass coral bleaching on Great Barrier Reef amid global heat stress event – video

  • Global heating pushes coral reefs towards worst planet-wide mass bleaching on record

  • Great Barrier Reef suffering ‘most severe’ coral bleaching on record as footage shows damage 18 metres down

  • Great Barrier Reef suffering ‘most severe’ coral bleaching on record – video

  • Great Barrier Reef discovery overturns belief Aboriginal Australians did not make pottery, archaeologists say

  • First Dog on the Moon
    Today we are getting an update on the Great Barrier Reef. No I don’t want to either

March 2024

  • Cowtail Ray & Coral Bleeching

    ‘Tourists ask a lot of questions’: Great Barrier Reef guides face up to bleaching tragedy

  • 240312 Great Barrier Reef skeptic thumbnail

    On the Great Barrier Reef and in denial: some would rather get crabby than face the facts

  • Aerial view of Great Barrier Reef

    Almost half of cane growers sceptical of science behind laws protecting Great Barrier Reef

  • Adam Morton

    We can’t pretend we’re doing enough if we want to give the Great Barrier Reef a chance to survive

    Adam Morton
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