Imagine exploring the ocean floor, feeling the cool water swirl around you, and suddenly noticing a starfish gliding across the sand. It seems almost magical, right? But here’s something even more ...

A culling programme has succeeded in protecting key areas of the Great Barrier Reef from voracious coral-eating starfish. Scientists who analysed the outcome say the effort should be expanded to ...

With too few tritons on the reef, crown-of-thorns starfish populations can explode, jeopardizing the living coral that makes up reefs. Covered with long, venomous spikes, the crown-of-thorns ...

Crown-of-thorns starfish populations are again flourishing along the Great Barrier Reef. Symon Dworjanyn is a professor of marine ecology at Southern Cross university. "Crown-of-thorns starfish ...

An underwater photographer working on the Great Barrier Reef says widespread bleaching has left her “heartbroken”, but ...

The Great Barrier Reef experienced its sixth widespread coral bleaching event in nine years, the latest “summer snapshot” has ...

The coral reefs of Nha Trang have also had to contend ... By 2019, an outbreak of a predatory, thorny starfish — made likelier because of the reef’s disturbed ecological balance — had ...

SYDNEY, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Australian scientists have reported the sixth mass coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef since 2016. In a report published on Wednesday night, scientists from ...