Scientists have delivered a sobering assessment about the future of low-lying island communities as sea levels continue to ...

Scientists on board a deep-sea expedition to the South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica have returned with a treasure trove ...

The Solomon Islands, a cluster of hundreds of islands in the South Pacific and fittingly bordered by the Coral Sea, hosts the second highest coral diversity on the planet, boasting more than 490 ...

Atoll islands with healthy ecosystems are less likely to disappear as oceans rise, research shows. Now, scientists are using nature-based solutions — like restoring coral reefs and native forests — to ...

San Félix discovered the coral while filming near an island called Malaulalo for an ... in part by documenting sea life. Malaulalo is mostly uninhabited and its waters are largely unexplored ...

Whether you are an experienced snorkeler or an inquisitive newcomer, the most spectacular underwater scenery on the planet is ...

The coral is a standalone structure, unlike a reef which is built on a symbiotic relationship between corals and sea anemones. The mammoth coral belonging to the species Pavona clavus was found by ...

A nearly seamless meeting of land and sea, peeking up like an illusion ... to global warming decades ago, these islands, which form atop coral reefs in clusters called atolls, were quickly ...

SINGAPORE: Singapore's coral reefs had a muted reproductive season in 2025, not because of any oil spill that occurred in the ...

so coral is very, very important." Small, low-lying island nations such as the Solomons are among the most vulnerable to the increasing effects of climate change and sea-level rise.

It was found by a National Geographic team conducting an expedition in the Solomon Islands in October ... every organism on a coral reef plays a vital role, such as sea cucumbers that clean ...