A drop in shipping emissions has caused a surge in warming at the Great Barrier Reef, fuelling calls for drastic actions such ...

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.

This 2011 astronaut photo shows the atolls of Rowley Shoals lined up in a near-perfect line off the coast of Australia. The ...

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

Discover some of the world's rarest snakes. The St. Lucia Racer, Antiguan racer, and Albany adder face critical endangerment.

Understanding how far Great Barrier Reef corals are from their parents could be key to identifying and protecting at-risk ...

Payam Saadat was detained in Western Australia and South Australia after arriving on Ashmore Reef in 2000.

Environment Minister Matthew Swinbourn raised the issue in parliament, stating the scale and duration of a marine heatwave had led to mass bleaching.

The invasive species is so effective at spreading that it was even found in Ashmore Reef Marine Park, island land some 630 kilometres north of Broome.

Australian researchers have conducted two separate field voyages to the Ashmore Reef Marine Park, about 630km north of Broome off the coast of Western Australia, only just returning after spending ...

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.

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 ...