This striking astronaut photo shows a unique chain of three atolls lined up side-by-side off the coast of Australia. The oval ...

The diversity of life amidst Australian coral reefs is mind-boggling. The Great Barrier Reef, for example, has coral that soars 1,600 feet up from the ocean floor and is rife with sea snakes ...

Ningaloo and some remote northern reefs had largely escaped the worst effects of coral bleaching – but now a severe marine heatwave is taking its toll.

At Ashmore Reef, a team from Parks Australia, CSIRO and Monash University are researching how to eradicate it from the marine park. Darren says they're applying three treatments to the buffel ...

More than two weeks after Australia's ... up four survivors from one boat believed to be carrying 87 people when it went down in waters between Indonesia and Ashmore Reef, a rocky Australian ...

Is Ashmore Reef part of Australia? That should be a relatively simple question to answer. The reef is an area of approximately 583 square kilometres, and encloses three islands – East, Middle, and ...

During an 18-day expedition of Ashmore Reef Marine Park the team used an underwater robot called ROV SuBastian to reach depths of 50-150 metres and get a closer look at the sea bed. The dives were ...

Ashmore, which comprises three sandy islands (total area 100ha) and a surrounding reef system, was annexed by ­Britain in 1878 and handed over to Australia in the 1930s.

Those include two Australian reefs far to the west of the Great Barrier Reef in the Timor Sea — Ashmore Reef and Rowley Shoals — and reefs at St. Lucia off the coast of South Africa and Cocos ...

Researchers also discovered a group of leaf-scaled sea snakes, or Aipysurus foliosquama, living in Western Australia more than 1,000 miles away from their only known habitat, Ashmore Reef.

Ashmore Reef, an atoll 350 kilometres off the Kimberley coast near Australia's border with Indonesia, is home to an array of marine life. It is also a target for illegal fishermen from South-East ...