A UNESCO draft decision will keep the Great Barrier Reef off its ‘in danger’ list. Meanwhile the Reef keeps changing as ocean temperatures continue to rise. 

Scientists in search of coral reef barriers which had been detected but not investigated in the 1960s, and were thought to be dead, discovered an apparently thriving ecosystem of deep-water corals. Using sonar surveys to narrow down their search areas and then an underwater drone and trail cameras to investigate, they identified a mesophotic coral garden teeming with species of reef-loving fish and multiple different varieties of coral. The researchers suspect that other as-yet undiscovered reef ecosystems could still be out there.

Researchers at the University of Sydney have harnessed over 30 years of data to build a new method to help more accurately measure the impact of climate change-induced events on the Great Barrier Reef.  

Their framework quantifies reef degradation over time and provides other researchers a 'health check’ tool to assess reef health. It can be used to measure the impact of severe disturbances, including coral bleaching, cyclones and floods, on reefs.  

Australian scientists are calling for wildlife surveys to be conducted within hours of prescribed burns after new research revealed that evidence of animal deaths can disappear in less than two weeks, significantly underestimating the true toll of fire on the country's wildlife.

Osaka Metropolitan University researchers have generated red blood cell-like cells from canine iPS cells and developed a fluorescent reporter system to track their formation in real time.

Earth scientists are slowly closing in on the class of impactor that caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event — new research indicates it wasn’t a garden-variety space rock.

A research team has developed a multisite bridging-mediated lateral flow immunoassay (mbLFIA) that enables highly sensitive, portable detection of mosquito-borne viruses, using Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) as a model target.