The UN body raised "utmost concern" over the site's declining coral cover after mass bleaching events in 2024 and 2025.

Researchers emphasized that today's climate disruption differs in speed.

The Crisafulli Government welcomes UNESCO's draft decision not to list the Great Barrier Reef as "in danger", recognising strong progress to protect ...

Conservationists are calling for greater government action to protect the Great Barrier Reef, as a looming El Nino weather ...

Some deeper areas of the Great Barrier Reef are insulated from harmful heat waves—but that protection will be lost if global warming continues, according to new research. High surface temperatures ...

The Reef Authority acknowledges the release of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre's draft decision on the Great Barrier Reef , ...

Australia is home to some of the world’s most beautiful reefs. This includes the lush Great Southern Reef, which wraps around ...

The UN World Heritage Committee has warned Australia more needs to be done to protect one of the country’s most significant ...

At the end of the 1960s, there was every expectation the Great Barrier Reef would be drilled for oil. The first gas well had been drilled in Victoria's Bass Strait in 1965 and oil was discovered soon ...

The National Environmental Law Association (NELA) has recommended to a Queensland Parliamentary inquiry that the Environmental and Other Legislation (Reversal of Great Barrier Reef Protection Measures ...