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 ...

It's no surprise the Great Barrier Reef is one of the most Googled natural wonders on Earth. This living icon boasts over ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Environmental DNA, or eDNA, can help us detect species by the traces they leave behind in their surroundings. This groundbreaking tool is transforming ...

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 ...

Dr Uthicke said they then settled on areas of coral rubble ... would eat juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish in aquariums, scientists went out on the reef and surveyed the crabs and CoTS present.