Great Barrier Reef
A giant manta ray and Bubbles the dolphin: The movie making couple bringing wildlife to the world
Custom-made virtual-reality technology is enabling a tiny production house to capture Australia’s staggering natural beauty in 360-degree detail.
- Victoria Laurie
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The reef is dying. So why can up to 190 tonnes be chopped out each year?
While the Great Barrier Reef suffers repeated bleaching, a little known and legal trade permits tonnes of live coral to be shipped overseas for use in aquariums.
- Bianca Hall
In traumatic times, this psychiatrist has some advice for you
The work of trauma expert Dr Bessel van der Kolk has become a cultural sensation.
- Lauren Ironmonger
Man bitten by shark while snorkelling on Great Barrier Reef
He was flown to hospital with puncture wounds and deep lacerations to his arm.
- Dominique Tassell
Martial arts instructor from Brisbane identified as man who died on reef
The 23-year-old’s body was recovered off Port Douglas after he fell overboard near where Steve Irwin was fatally injured in 2006.
- William Davis
Australia’s bid to persuade the UN the Great Barrier Reef is doing better
The federal government is fighting against the Great Barrier Reef being listed as “in danger”. Such a listing could threaten 77,000 jobs and a $9 billion industry.
- Bianca Hall
Goblin sharks off Sydney: The young scientist unveiling creatures of the deep
Australian scientist Yi-Kai Tea is investigating one of the weirdest realms of the ocean – and it’s right on Australia’s doorstep.
- Angus Dalton
‘A bit funky’: What it’s like to swim through the world’s largest sex act
A spectacular storm of fertility has erupted in Australia during one of the world’s most crucial and beautiful natural events.
- Angus Dalton
Coral spawning on the Great Barrier Reef
Mass coral spawning at Moore Reef on the night of December 9. SOURCE: Tourism and Events Queensland
How a beautiful curtain of bubbles led to a bleak undersea discovery
A carbon dioxide seep on a reef in Papua New Guinea is being used as a time machine to see into the future of the world’s coral.
- Nick O'Malley