From groundbreaking research to the beauty of marine sanctuaries teeming with life, these images shine a spotlight on the ...

Check out the incredible views of the Indian Ocean islands of Kedah (Malaysia), Phi Phi (Thailand), Maafusi (Maldives), and the Seychelles, as seen from above, captured by the elite drone pilots ...

Take a look at this year's most remarkable works of ocean photography. Julian Jacobs won ... gannet diving through the water in the Shetland Islands. The northern gannet dove to capture its ...

On a wisp of land in the Indian Ocean ... and the tiny islands returned to watery oblivion, probably in this century. Then, not very long ago, researchers began sifting through aerial images ...

In the Maldives, a 900-kilometer-long chain of about 1,200 islands in the Indian Ocean, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Self-Assembly Lab and Maldivian organization Invena are ...

The Chagos Islands are a collection of 60 islands that lie 500km south of the Maldives, in the Indian Ocean. They were claimed by Mauritius, after the country gained independence in 1968.