Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links.In the pristine coral atolls of Lakshadweep, where turquoise ...

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 ...

In June 2011, Baa Atoll in the Maldives became a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve along with the likes of Komodo Island in Indonesia and the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador. The atoll is home to one of the ...

Hello out there! We haven't forgotten about you, wonderful blog readers - but sometimes (or a lot of the time) other deadlines keep us from writing as much as we wish. I'm currently focused on ...

How Many Atolls Does Belize Have? Belize is home to three atolls, Turneffe Atoll, Lighthouse Reef Atoll, and Glover's Reef Atoll. Each atoll offers different activities and opportunities, but the most ...

The Lighthouse Atoll in the Belize Barrier Reef is featured in this image acquired by Japan’s ALOS satellite. In the upper-central part of the image, an underwater sinkhole known as the Great Blue ...

The reefs at Palmyra Atoll, a small outlying atoll in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, have been undergoing a shift from stony corals to systems dominated by corallimorphs, marine invertebrates that ...

Charles Darwin sparked more than one controversy over the natural progression of life. One such case involved the evolution of coral atolls, the ring-shaped coral reefs that surround submerged ...

Many coral reef islands, or atolls, are created by water moving sand and gravel, piling it up into consecutive ridged layers. However, new research has uncovered a different type of island ...

The United States tested its largest thermonuclear bomb in 1954 over Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, generating radioactive fallout downwind, including over remote Rongelap Atoll. We surveyed ...

The reefs at Palmyra Atoll, a small outlying atoll in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, have been undergoing a shift from stony corals to systems dominated by corallimorphs, marine invertebrates that ...