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, ...

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 ...

Severe Cold-Water Bleaching and Mortality of Deep-Water Reef Observed in ... in the Indo-Australian Archipelago and Its Rise as a Hotspot June 28, 2024 — The Coral Triangle, also known as ...

Helen Reef, a 40-square-mile atoll at the southern edge of Palau, is one of Earth's most remote and biologically diverse ...

Coral reefs are often described as the rainforests of the sea. The (typically) vibrantly colored underwater ecosystems are built by colonies of tiny animals called polyps. Coral reefs provide ...

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 ...