Research published in 2010 – the first on Bikini’s reef in decades – indicated that about 70% of coral species at Bikini ...

By Marco Lopez Rosie knows the Lighthouse Reef Atoll like the back of her fin. She calls this atoll home and is a matriarch ...

Research on Scott Reef off Northwest Australia has shown that local coral connections help boost the resilience of remote atoll reef systems following bleaching and storms. Coral reefs are facing ...

2009). Charles Darwin first proposed the theory of atoll reef formation. He postulated that fringing reefs develop close to the shoreline in shallow waters around volcanic islands (Figure 6).

This story appears in the September 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. “If an alien had just one day on Earth and wanted to see a coral reef,” says National Geographic Explorer-in ...

Narrated by Oscar winner Liam Neeson, their adventure takes them from the Great Barrier Reef to the stunning islands of Fiji, Tahiti and the Rangiroa atoll where they seek to better understand ...

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 ...