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 ...

Private island resorts make a compelling case for travelers craving wide-open horizons and a sense of privacy with their ...

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For many, diving in a coral reef is a life-changing experience, and these destinations are sure to provide an otherwordly ...

Located on North Ari Atoll’s award-winning house reef, Tara Cobham dives in to explain the luxury resort’s innovative events ...

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 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 ...