Insufficient global action on climate change is taking a serious toll on the health of our Great Barrier Reef. Urgent global action to drastically and rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions is needed now if we are going to have any chance of saving coral reefs.

Aug 7, 2024 · A study of samples taken from inside the bodies of centuries-old coral has revealed the threat climate change now poses to the Great Barrier Reef.

Jul 23, 2021 · But scientists warn the Great Barrier Reef is on the brink of breaking down. A study found that following bleaching events in 2016 and 2017, there weren't enough adult corals left to...

Aug 7, 2024 · Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is under unprecedented pressure, with recent record-high sea-surface temperatures threatening to destroy its remarkable ecology, biodiversity and beauty, according to a new study.

Aug 7, 2024 · Blistering Coral Sea temperatures from February to April 2024 led to the Great Barrier Reef’s fifth mass bleaching event in eight years, turning patches of staghorn (shown) and other coral ...

Aug 7, 2024 · Earlier this year, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef cooked at temperatures higher than any it has experienced in at least four centuries, according to climate researchers.

Jul 5, 2018 · THE GREAT BARRIER REEF could be hit with repeat coral bleaching events every two years by 2034 under current greenhouse gas pollution rates, the Climate Council's new report shows.

Aug 7, 2024 · This generation will probably see the demise of the Great Barrier Reef unless humanity acts with far more urgency to rein in climate change, according to scientists in Australia who...

Nov 28, 2022 · Scientists say the Great Barrier Reef is facing major threats due to the climate crisis and that action to save it needs to be taken with "with upmost urgency."

Leading scientists have found that sea surface temperatures on the Great Barrier Reef have reached a 400-year critical level, with human-induced climate change to blame.