Australia’s Great Barrier Reef stretches 1,400 miles (2,300 kilometers) down the Queensland coast. Before the pandemic forced borders to close, it attracted around three million tourists each year.

Made up of 3,000 individual reefs, the Great Barrier Reef stretches from the tip of Queensland, down to Hervey Bay, just north of Brisbane. It's as big as Germany, covering 347,800 square ...

A Qantas flight flies close to the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Oct. 10, 2020. James D. Morgan/Getty Images, FILE The decline of the coral has also resulted in decreasing populations of certain ...

The Great Barrier Reef is also important for Australia's economy. It attracts more than 2 million tourists to the state of Queensland each year, contributing $6.4 billion to the country's economy ...

The Great Barrier Reef is one of the most unique and diverse ecosystems in the world. Located off the coast of Queenslan ...

The damage caused in recent years to the Great Barrier Reef by ocean heat waves has compromised the massive reef’s ability to recover, and climate change could make the problem more severe in ...

The sheer size of the Great Barrier Reef makes mapping expeditions expensive, and, no surprise, funding is hard to come by. Large ships that use remote sensing in deep waters can cost AU$40,000 ...

The Great Barrier Reef is a national and global icon, inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1981. Since then, it’s become apparent that this vast array of marine ecosystems – stretching ...

On October 11, 2016, Outside Magazine Online published a piece titled “Obituary: Great Barrier Reef (25 Million BC–2016),” which used the obituary format as a vehicle to describe the ...