With the hundreds of countries spread around the globe, there's more than a few that are difficult to pinpoint. Here are several of the smallest countries that most people will struggle to find on a ...

It takes 26 hours for the entire planet to enter the New Year. It takes a full 26 hours for our entire planet to enter the ...

An hour before midnight, the victims of the Bondi Beach attack – during which 15 were killed and 40 injured – were ...

The island of Kiritimati in Kiribati became the first place in the world to welcome 2026, kicking off global New Year ...

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

The tiny Pacific island nation of Palau has agreed to accept up to 75 non-American migrants from the United States under a ...

More and more, travelers are turning to the skies for inspiration.

Scientists have found that the 2023 marine heat wave caused “functional extinction” of two Acropora reef-building coral species living in the Florida Reef, which stretches from the Dry Tortugas ...

With much of the world's coral turning a ghostly white, UC Riverside scientists have launched a project to uncover how reefs regain life-giving algae after suffering from heat stress. Bleaching occurs ...

Over the past twenty years, coral reef restoration has seen unprecedented growth worldwide. From Indonesia to the Caribbean, thousands of projects have been launched with the goal of "saving" coral ...

Researchers at QUT uncovered how corals reattach to reefs through a three-phase process involving tissue transformation, anchoring, and skeleton formation. Differences among species reveal why some ...

Abnormally hot surface water temperatures have created conditions ripe for an unprecedented coral bleaching event. This side-by-side shows the same elkhorn coral in August 2022 before bleaching and in ...