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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is suffering a mass bleaching event, the reef’s marine park authority confirmed Friday, the result of soaring ocean temperatures caused by the global climate ...

Australia's environment minister says her government will urge against the U.N. adding the Great Barrier Reef to a list of endangered sites, saying worries are a reflection of the previous government.

Sydney: Lizard Island on Australia's Great Barrier Reef has suffered one of the world's worst coral die-offs, with 92 per ...

One of Australia’s most iconic landscapes has been given just six months to turn its future around as it continues to battle environmental disasters.

(CNN) — Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is suffering another mass bleaching event, the reef’s managers confirmed Friday, the result of soaring ocean temperatures caused by the global climate ...

Covering nearly 133,000 square miles (345,000 square kilometers), the Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef, home to more than 1,500 species of fish and 411 species of hard corals.

Australia's environmental minister argued that the country has already addressed several of the report's concerns over the world's largest coral reef.