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Ningaloo, Australia - A mass bleaching event has been recorded off the Western Australian coast, devastating local ecosystems as a similar event takes a wrecking ball to the iconic Great Barrier Reef.

The southern Great Barrier Reef is suffering from extensive coral bleaching due to heat stress, the reef’s managers said Wednesday, raising fears that a seventh mass bleaching event could be unfolding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Parts of Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef, famed for its stunning colors and biodiversity, suffered the biggest decline of ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is experiencing yet another mass coral bleaching event due to heat, the country’s government confirmed Friday. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, which ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — The United Nations issued a dire alert Monday, warning that many of the world’s coral reefs could die as soon as 2040 as a result of climate change. Already, warming waters have ...

SYDNEY (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, following a mass ...

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.

What struck Scott Bennett most were the razor clams. The long saltwater clams, resembling old-fashioned razors, normally burrow into sand to avoid predators. But when Bennett, an ecologist, visited ...

On Dec. 5, the UN recognized the restoration of Australia's shellfish reefs as a World Restoration Flagship, acknowledged for its Indigenous and local leadership together with The Nature Conservancy ...

Courtship calls among two species of fish commonly found on Australian coral reefs have been described, and researchers say ...