The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been ...

Coral reefs, crucial for marine biodiversity, are suffering immensely from climate change, ocean acidification, pollution, ...

The Chagos Archipelago provided a large-scale natural ... fish on rat-free reefs than on those around "ratty islands". Coral reefs cover less than 0.1% of the ocean's area, but house about one ...

when Britain declared the Chagos Archipelago to be a marine protected area (MPA), then the largest on earth, with a total area of 250,000 square miles, including half of the good coral reef in the ...

For years, China has taken over uninhabited reef islands and transformed ... handed Xi Jinping a major win after ceding the Chagos Islands, an archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean ...

Few places in the world are quite so remote as the 60 or so islands that make up the Chagos Archipelago ... of shark live in its pristine reefs. But the archipelago’s main resident is much ...

"The beauty and abundant marine life, particularly on the coral reefs in the Archipelago captivated me from an early age," she says, "I would spend hours exploring the reefs observing the fish ...

Rat eradication also helps the health of surrounding coral reefs. The presence of people ... an agreement to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago might end years of dispute between ...

Protection of pristine coral reefs in the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean could be set to change – pictured here from Diego Garcia, the largest and only inhabited island. John Parker ...

Like coral reefs elsewhere around the planet ... The announcement of an agreement to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago might end years of dispute between the UK and Mauritius governments ...