Environmental groups are planning to sue President Trump over his plans to open the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National ...

Sea levels rising and falling over hundreds of thousands of years may have helped build the oceanic structures ...

The Great Blue Hole lies around 60 miles off the coast of Belize City and is part of the Belize Barrier Reef, a UNESCO World ...

A 30-meter sediment core extracted from the “Great Blue Hole” in Belize offers the longest continuous record of storm ...

ARTE/GombessaExpedition2017 At the south end of Fakarava Atoll, a 35-mile-long rectangle of coral in French Polynesia, a narrow channel cuts through the barrier reef. Every June thousands of ...

Glover’s Reef is one of the only atolls (an island completely subsided beneath the water, leaving a ring of growing coral with an open lagoon in its center) in the Atlantic Ocean. Most are in ...

Visible in the background is the edge of the Lighthouse Reef Atoll. FRANKFURT. In the shallow waters of the Lighthouse Reef Atoll, located 80 kilometers off the coast of the small Central American ...

Along the way, Darwin hatched new ideas about the formation of reefs — including the shimmering island rings of coral known as atolls. Once upon a time, Darwin proposed, there must have been a ...