Despite its importance, the Great Barrier Reef faces a number of threats, including climate change, pollution, and overfishing. Scientists are working to better understand these threats and ...

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, which has jurisdiction over much of the reef, has taken steps to control water pollution, conserve coastal wetlands and set rules for who can do what ...

An aerial view of Vlassof Cay in the Great Barrier Reef, Nov. 14 ... tissue and give them color and nutrients. Warmer water temperatures, acidifying oceans, pollution and other stressors can ...

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, along with many others around the world.