Research on Scott Reef off Northwest Australia has shown that local coral connections help boost the resilience of remote atoll reef systems following bleaching and storms. Coral reefs are facing ...

Research published in 2010 – the first on Bikini’s reef in decades – indicated that about 70% of coral species at Bikini ...

This story appears in the September 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. “If an alien had just one day on Earth and wanted to see a coral reef,” says National Geographic Explorer-in ...

CORAL reefs are divided into three classes, fringing, barrier and atoll. A fringing reef forms a terrace at the low tide level, extending out from the coast of any land, while a barrier reef is a ...

Keramithaa and Kaashilhuhudoo island atolls are located The Maldives in the Indian Ocean and you can choose to buy one or both for AU$4.5 million. An Australian-based real estate agency specialising ...

Tahiti and the Rangiroa atoll where they seek to better understand these vital ecosystems. Coral Reef Adventure follows filmmakers Howard and Michele Hall on a daring expedition across the South ...

Before Charles Darwin came up with his famous theory about evolution, he proposed a theory of how coral reefs and atolls formed. Some of the specimens he collected to support his theory are now cared ...

Surrounded by crystal-clear waters teeming with an incredibly diverse marine life and extensive coral reefs, the 26 atolls of the Maldives easily lay claim to being one of the world’s best scuba ...