This story appears in the May 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Not far beneath the surface of the Coral Sea, where the Great Barrier Reef lives, parrotfish teeth grind against rock ...

Polluted runoff is still smothering the Great Barrier Reef, our first national assessment of water quality trends in ...

The Great Barrier Reef is home to an incredible amount of biodiversity, with over 9,000 known species of marine life National Geographic Society. However, there are likely many more species that ...

In 2016 and 2017, marine heat waves caused by climate change resulted in mass bleaching, which killed about half of the corals on the Great Barrier Reef ... withdrew its National Energy Guarantee ...

The Great Barrier Reef has been seriously damaged by too much ocean heat. According to University of Sydney: The damage is at catastrophic levels. And as stated by the National Oceanic and ...

Visitors to the National Geographic website can discover trips centered on wildlife. The expedition to Sri Lanka showcases various animals, Australia’s great barrier reef stuns scuba divers ...

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 ...

Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the ... "These changes provide valuable insights into classic geographic patterns, such as the latitudinal diversity gradient, and ...