Coral cover across the Great Barrier Reef has experienced its largest annual decline since records began, a report from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) has found. AIMS surveyed the health of 124 coral reefs between August 2024 and May 2025, finding that 48% of reefs underwent a decline in percentage coral cover.
EurekAlert!: How did the early Great Barrier Reef manage rapid environmental change?
University of Sydney One Tree Island Research Station on the southern Great Barrier Reef. Fossilised cores were taken from this part of the reef. As the modern Great Barrier Reef emerged after the ...
CNN: Australia’s Great Barrier Reef devastated by worst coral bleaching on record, new report finds
Parts of Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef, famed for its stunning colors and biodiversity, suffered the biggest decline of coral on record last year after a marine heatwave bleached vast swathes ...
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef devastated by worst coral bleaching on record, new report finds
Mongabay: ‘Corals dying’ as yet more bleaching hits heat-stressed Great Barrier Reef
Both aerial and in-water surveys have shown that the southern section of the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing extensive coral bleaching. Surveys have also shown “limited bleaching” in the northern ...
Yahoo: What it's like to night dive on the Great Barrier Reef
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest living structure, so big, it can be seen from space. Photograph by Kieran Stone, ...
NBC News: Australia's Great Barrier Reef hit by fifth mass bleaching event in eight years