Marine ecologist Dr. Alan Friedlander, who has been based in Hawaiʻi for the past 35 years and now is Chief Scientist of ...

The U.S. Air Force issued a notice this month proposing the construction of two landing pads on Johnston Atoll to test the ...

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 ...

Kure Atoll, the northernmost reef in the Hawaiian archipelago, hosts mesophotic reefs with the highest level endemic species, or those unique to a specific location, found in any marine ecosystem ...

The Tubbataha Reef Marine Park covers 33,200 ha, including the North and South Reefs. It is a unique example of an atoll reef with a very high density of marine species; the North Islet serving as a ...

The Coast Guard Administration (CGA) has so far this year expelled Chinese fishing vessels 77 times and detained six small ...

Before Charles Darwin came up with his famous theory about evolution, he proposed a theory of how coral reefs and atolls formed. Some of the specimens he collected to support his theory are now cared ...

Image: Aldabra in the Indian Ocean is one of the world's most heavily protected coral atolls Jude Brice, the station manager, took us by boat to the thriving coral reef that rings the island.

Surrounded by crystal-clear waters teeming with an incredibly diverse marine life and extensive coral reefs, the 26 atolls of the Maldives easily lay claim to being one of the world’s best scuba ...