This photograph, taken by an International Space Station astronaut while in orbit over the Caribbean Sea, captures one of Earth’s most alluring ocean locations. The Great Blue Hole lies near the ...

Ecological restoration may save coral atoll islands from the rising seas of climate change, according to an international team of scientists, conservationists, and an indigenous leader. While global ...

A new study published by oceanographers from the Australian Institute of Marine Sciences (AIMS) found that remote atoll coral reefs are more resilient than previously thought because of their ability ...

Global environmental change is identified as a driver of physical transformation of coral reef islands over the past half-century, and next 100 years, posing major adaptation challenges to island ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean sits a small island that is helping scientists understand how the entire planet works. I was there last week. And it really helped me. The first thing Tracy said ...

China said on Monday "illegal" beaching of Philippine warships at the Nansha islands in the South China Sea had "gravely damaged" the coral reef ecosystem in the area, as both countries tussle over ...

Table 1 Summary of seagrass zone characteristics, species-level grain size data, mass of sediment per leaf and epibiotic sediment production rates. The role of seagrass as a source of reef ...

Signature of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Seychelles Island Foundation, the Centre Scientifique de Monaco and the Institut Océanographique de Monaco on 25 October 2022, which aims to ...