AFP – Oil from a huge Chinese ship which ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef has washed up at a famed nature sanctuary, officials said Wednesday, raising fears for birds and baby turtles.

AFP – A Chinese captain whose ship ran aground and leaked oil on Australia’s world-famous Great Barrier Reef has provoked anger by claiming the spill was not serious, a report said Wednesday.

LiveScience.com – Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is the largest living organism on the planet, stretching some 1,430 miles (2,300 kilometers). Home to 400 coral species, the Great Barrier Reef is a mosaic of approximately 2,900 offshore and inshore reefs

AP – Workers rushed to contain an oil spill Monday from a coal-carrying ship grounded on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, sending a tugboat to stabilize the vessel so that it would not break apart and further damage the fragile coral beneath.

LiveScience.com – Four newly identified worm species, including one that sports an unusual green color, have been found wriggling in the sands of the Great Barrier Reef.

Group of Islands in the Indian Ocean Rival Galapagos Islands, Great Barrier Reef in Ecological Diversity WASHINGTON, March 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Today, the Pew Environment Group praised the United Kingdom (U.K.) for taking one further step towards designating the world’s largest marine reserv