Media: Great Barrier Reef devastated! Reality: After hitting unprecedented highs in 2022-24, coral cover in 2025 is 'only' the 4th highest ever recorded Look at the data, not the headlines

Official, reef-wide stat widely published as the Great Barrier Reef got worse But when it got better, official stat stopped Here is the optimal average (least-square) based on their own estimates from 1986-2020 Newest data: Last official reef-wide average: