Extensive coral bleaching on many of the world’s reefs over the past two years has highlighted their susceptibility to thermal stress with global warming already at 0.9°C to date.

Thanks to an impressive collaborative effort, scientists have revealed that a tiny fraction of marine sponges are host to almost 40,000 different microbes – a finding that highlights the massive...

Annual growth rings found in trees, corals and even fish ear-stones have shown that climate change has the same, wide-ranging impact on life, whether at sea or on land. This is according to an...

Mid and outer-shelf reefs within the Townsville Sector of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) continue to show signs of recovery, 5 years after suffering significant damage during Cyclone Yasi in 2011.

Harnessing technology popularised by the computer gaming industry, AIMS scientists are jumping in to explore the immersive technology of 360⁰ video as a supplementary tool for underwater video...

Recent advances in coral population genetics are set to provide resource managers with crucial information to aid in more robust and refined delineation of marine protected area networks and reef...

AIMS researchers are collating their data after a two week coral bleaching monitoring voyage to several oceanic coral reefs on the northwest Australian continental shelf.

AIMS scientists returned to Townsville this week after more than 3 weeks assessing bleaching on the GBR between Townsville and Port Douglas as part of the National Coral Bleaching Taskforce....

The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is a sensitive ecosystem, and it’s facing a number of environmental challenges. One of those issues is water clarity: murky waters are bad news for both coral reefs and...