The Maldives isn’t just a destination, it’s a meditation in blue. A constellation of coral atolls scattered across the Indian ...

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The ring-shaped coral islands known as atolls, like this one in the Maldives Islands in the Indian Ocean, may trace their formation to sea levels repeatedly rising and falling over hundreds of ...

Charles Darwin sparked more than one controversy over the natural progression of life. One such case involved the evolution of coral atolls, the ring-shaped coral reefs that surround submerged ...

Ecological restoration may save coral atoll islands from the rising seas of climate change, according to an international team of scientists, conservationists, and an indigenous leader. While global ...

The Huangyan Dao National Nature Reserve has been designated under China's legal framework. Huangyan Dao is a typical natural ...

Ecological restoration may save coral atoll islands from the rising seas of climate change, according to an international team of scientists, conservationists, and an indigenous leader. Ecological ...

The process of atoll island accretion. Credit: Trends in Ecology & Evolution (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.11.004 Ecological restoration may save coral atoll islands from the rising seas of climate ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Low-lying, white-sand islands lined with palm trees and perched on tropical coral atolls are the ...

HOUSTON - (Oct. 12, 2020) - Marine geologist and oceanographer André Droxler knows Charles Darwin's theory about atolls is incorrect. But Droxler, who's studied coral reefs for more than 40 years, ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 61, No. 6 (2016), pp. 2191-2206 (16 pages) We present results of the thermodynamics and hydrodynamics of an atoll system and their effect on coral cover based on field ...