Synthetic pheromones may be a promising tool in attracting and culling troublesome crown-of-thorns starfish, which rapidly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is experiencing yet another mass coral bleaching event due to heat, the country’s government ...

Australia's Minister for Environment Tanya Plibersek speaks at a press conference at Parliament House. The Australian government on Tuesday heralded a draft report of the United Nations Educational, ...

Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — The United Nations issued a dire alert Monday, warning that many of the world’s coral reefs could die as soon as 2040 as a result of climate change. Already, warming waters have ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades of record-keeping, Australian authorities say. Lake ...

On Dec. 5, the UN recognized the restoration of Australia's shellfish reefs as a World Restoration Flagship, acknowledged for its Indigenous and local leadership together with The Nature Conservancy ...

If 2026 is the year you finally book your first cruise from Australia, think of it as choosing the easiest kind of holiday ...

Australia boasts plenty of superlatives when it comes to its natural landmarks. The Great Barrier Reef, the world's biggest coral reef system on the north-east coast, is rightly recognised as a Unesco ...

CANBERRA, Australia — 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 ...