Volcanic islands, such as the islands of Hawaii and the Caribbean, are surrounded by coral reefs that encircle an island in a ...

The Pacific Islands were well represented at the conference, with the Federated States of Micronesia, French Polynesia, Fiji, ...

Hycean worlds are also called ocean worlds. They're planets covered in oceans that also have thick hydrogen atmospheres.

Tropical coral reefs encrust the coastlines of islands and continents near Earth’s equator but this zone, which has offered ...

A massive landmass called Zealandia was submerged beneath the southwest Pacific Ocean, and geologists took up the task to map the unknown region.

“There’s always the possibility of an accidental or catastrophic failure, god forbid,” says Mark Rauzon, a biogeographer at ...