The mysterious Sandy Island has been charted since 1774 as being located new New Caledonia in the South Pacific, but you won’t find it in Google Maps today. Instead you’ll see a faint outline ...

Obscure and unexplored islands are dotted all around the world, many of which sit hundreds and sometimes thousands of miles away from any nearby landmass. There is one that has garnered more ...

Over the years, Cody Clements, a marine ecologist at Georgia Tech, has planted over 10,000 coral ... off the island of Mo'orea, something caught his attention. It had to do with sea cucumbers ...

China has concluded that coral reef degradation in the waters surrounding Sandy Cay – a disputed reef in the South China Sea – was due ... projects on an island close by.

An aerial view of Holothuria atra sea cucumbers near the island of ... in 10 plots of sandy seabed and removed them from 10 others, then planted five Acropora pulchra coral segments in each ...

That 12-nautical-mile radius overlaps with Thitu Island, the South China Sea reef the Philippines uses to track Chinese moves in the area. The White House said the reports of China seizing Sandy ...

The reef, located in the flash point Spratly Island chain, is also claimed by Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines. Sandy Cay also sits just over 3 kilometers from Thitu Island, known as Pag-asa by ...