A culling programme has succeeded in protecting key areas of the Great Barrier Reef from voracious coral-eating starfish. Scientists who analysed the outcome say the effort should be expanded to ...

The Great Barrier Reef is one of the most biodiverse places ... allowing harmful types of algae and predatory starfish to overwhelm parts. But coral reefs are suffering even more from climate ...

Crown-of-thorns starfish populations are again flourishing along the Great Barrier Reef. Symon Dworjanyn is a professor of marine ecology at Southern Cross university. "Crown-of-thorns starfish ...

The Great Barrier Reef ecosystem faces many pressures with ... water pollution and outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish. These pressures have huge effects on the coral reefs—impacting the ...

Study co-author Sven Uthicke said the Great Barrier Reef had been experiencing outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish (CoTS) since the 1960s. Dr Uthicke, who is also the principal research ...

Small, hidden crabs may be the missing link influencing coral-eating starfish populations, according to a study published in the prestigious ...

Scientists discovered that crabs eat young crown-of-thorns starfish, reducing their population before they damage coral reefs ...

An "unprecedented" mass bleaching event has been recorded off Australia's western coast, scientists said Wednesday, turning ...

While we know crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS ... species of decapod caught across more than 1,000 km of the Great Barrier Reef," he said. "And we found fewer crabs in areas prone to COTS outbreaks." ...

The Great Barrier Reef is rare in that most of its threats come in the form ... Amongst other things it has catalysed the spawning cycles of Crown of Thorns Starfish (COTS). Traditionally COTS would ...

“The only solution is for the whole world to get together and stop polluting the earth with carbon emissions,” says Hoggett. ...

Search the images of the Great Barrier Reef and see if you can find Captain Barnacles, Kwazii and Peso as they try to find a way to hold back hungry swarms of coral eating starfish to save a new ...