This story appears in the May 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Not far beneath the surface of the Coral Sea, where the Great Barrier Reef lives, parrotfish teeth grind against rock ...

The Great Barrier Reef is home to an incredible amount of biodiversity, with over 9,000 known species of marine life National Geographic Society. However, there are likely many more species that ...

For decades, the Great Barrier Reef has enjoyed World Heritage Status and been synonymous with diving, tourism and with Australia. But in June of this year, UNESCO threatened to downgrade the Great ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: This is the Great Barrier Reef, and it's dying. Less than 20 years ago, the world's largest living structure looked like this, and this.

The Great Barrier Reef ecosystem faces many pressures with ... "These changes provide valuable insights into classic geographic patterns, such as the latitudinal diversity gradient, and opens ...

This story appears in the October 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Its Australian cousin, the Great Barrier Reef, is great indeed at 1,429 miles long—the biggest structure created ...

In 2016 and 2017, marine heat waves caused by climate change resulted in mass bleaching, which killed about half of the corals on the Great Barrier Reef, along with many others around the world.

Satellite imagery has revealed the huge amounts of floodwater heading into the ocean and towards parts of the Great Barrier Reef after Queensland experienced more than two weeks of heavy rain.

The best time to visit the Great Barrier Reef is from June to October. This peak season offers some key advantages for travelers. Temperatures hover in the low 60s to mid-80s, and rainfall is ...

He is also the managing director of the NGO ‘Great Barrier Reef Legacy’ which is a group of experts ... Australia is hosted by Chrissie Goldrick (Editor-in-chief at Australian Geographic) and produced ...