A GROUP of artists wants children to be continue to allowed to climb on the Cairns Esplanade’s newest public sculpture, saying it should be an “interactive” artwork. Cairns Regional Council is ...

Stretching almost 1,500 miles, the Great Barrier Reef is so vast that just 20% has been surveyed. With tourism funding ...

The Great Barrier Reef – the world's largest reef system that's "one of the richest and most complex natural ecosystems on Earth" – is once again undergoing a mass coral bleaching event. Officials ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Use the catamaran ride out to Reef Magic’s pontoon to plan your day. Once you have your time for add-ons like scuba diving and helicopter tours, inquire about times for any free ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades of record-keeping, Australian authorities say. US ...

Parts of the Great Barrer Reef have suffered the highest coral mortality on record, Australian research showed Tuesday, with scientists fearing the rest of it has suffered a similar fate. The ...

What’s it like to wrangle a lobster the size of your arm? On Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, we set out to find one — and ...

The widespread heat stress on the Great Barrier Reef, causing huge bleaching events among the corals, has been revealed in new satellite images. A map, shared by the NASA Earth Observatory, uses ...