For all of the mysteries that remain about coral reefs, though, experts agree that climate change is an undisputed threat.

These sharks are critically endangered, and they are usually a solitary species, which makes the phenomenon even more unusual ...

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).

There are three main types of coral reefs: fringing, barrier and atoll, the most common of which is the fringing reef. A fringing reef extends from the shore out into the ocean, forming a border along ...

For thousands of years, the people of Ulithi atoll have managed their reef atoll ecosystem using traditional knowledge. Wedged between Japan, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea, they've used ...

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 ...

A reef such as the one that encircles Île Europa ... but also to a million breeding pairs of seabirds. Bassas is an atoll that barely shows above the waterline and has a shark-filled lagoon ...

If you start at Hawaii and travel 1,000 miles south, you’ll run into a cluster of tiny islands known as islets that make up ...