A green sea turtle near Lady Elliot Island. We were 10,000 feet above the Pacific, in a tiny Cessna that seemed like it should have been flying much lower than that, when the clouds cleared and Lady ...

It demonstrates that the onset of reef growth on the outer shelf was preceded by a rise in summer temperature from ~26° to ~28°C at around 700 thousand years ago (marine isotope stage 17). This ...

SYDNEY, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Australia's Great Barrier Reef has suffered the largest decline in coral cover in two of its three regions over the last year, research released on Wednesday showed, ...

Daniela Ceccarelli works for the Australian Institute of Marine Science, a publicly funded research organisation that receives funding from the Australian government, state government departments, ...

I headed 20 miles offshore alone, chasing big fish along the edge of the continental shelf — and it didn’t take long before things turned chaotic. Dolphins swarmed the bow, birds worked bait balls, ...