Scientists are rushing to contain an emerging outbreak of coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish on the Great Barrier Reef, warning it could be one of the worst in 60 years.

Armed with ox bile and household vinegar, researcher Adam Skerritt and a team of 10 divers are busy scoping coral reefs off the Cairns coast to stop an ecological time bomb before it explodes.

It is a brilliant blue-sky day in Port Sudan, cloudless, the dry heat tempered by a Red Sea breeze as a small boat putt-putts away from a rickety wooden pier loaded with day tripping families.

The global reduction in sulphur content in ship fuels has inadvertently worsened coral bleaching events on Australia's Great ...

The removal of sulphur from shipping fuels caused ‘a lot of extra sunlight’ to get through atmosphere and hit reef in 2022 ...

Global financing is heavily skewed to industries that harm rather than preserve nature, according to a new report that calls ...

Australians often head to the Pacific or Asia to find the perfect island escape, but our own island offer beaches as good, or ...

National Parks comprise the framework of worldwide conservation, sheltering ancient rainforests, coral reefs, as well as glaciers, deserts, and grasslands. Although every nation delineates and ...

Preparations for a large-scale limestone shellfish reef – the first delivered under the Malinauskas Government's Summer Plan – are underway on the ...

The world's largest living coral reef exhibit is yet to be rebuilt five years after the Queensland aquarium closed.

Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really ...

A crucial tool in large scale coral reef restoration can be made cheaply and with non-toxic waste materials which could ...