World Reef Awareness Day rolls around every year on June 1 to remind us about coral reefs, some of the most vital natural ...

The Great Barrier Reef — a colorful and iconic natural wonder off the coast of Australia that spans an area of 133,000 square miles (344,400 square kilometres) — is suffering potentially unprecedented ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

The Great Barrier Reef, located off Australia's northeast coast, is a massive and ancient ecosystem that spans 14 degrees of latitude. Its bewildering diversity includes over 3,000 individual coral ...

The Guardian of the Reef platform helps visitors make more eco-conscious travel plans. Rachel Chang is a travel and pop culture journalist who contributes to Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, ...

The Great Barrier Reef seen here in this NASA satellite image. Stretching along more than 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) of Australia's eastern coast is one of the world's most famous natural wonders ...

Australia’s environment minister said Tuesday her government will lobby against UNESCO adding the Great Barrier Reef to a list of endangered World Heritage sites, arguing that criticisms of government ...

Parts of the Great Barrier Reef have recorded their highest amount of coral cover since the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) began monitoring 36 years ago, according to a report published ...

We were 10,000 feet above the Pacific, in a tiny Cessna that seemed like it should have been flying much lower than that, when the clouds cleared and Lady Elliot Island appeared below us like an ...