Twenty-nine satellite images, ranging from 2009 to 2024, continue to come back to the same bright form in the shallow waters ...

Millennium Atoll, the easternmost island of the Pacific nation Kiribati, is a rare pristine example of the coral reef ecosystem. Isolated from human disruption for centuries, the atoll is full of life ...

A series of surveys were carried out to characterize the physical and biological parameters of the Millennium Atoll lagoon during a research expedition in April of 2009. Millennium is a remote coral ...

On Tetiaroa, a vibrant coral atoll dotted with sandy islets, archaeologists, marine biologists and cultural practitioners are working together to improve understanding of a unique ecosystem Sarah Kuta ...

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 ...

Researchers surveyed 29 warships at Bikini Atoll and Chuuk Lagoon and found that they hosted up to a third of coral genera found on natural reefs in neighboring regions. This study has led researchers ...

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 ...