Like many island nations, Cocos Islands — a group of 27 small atolls that lie 2,936 kilometers west of Australia — are increasingly threatened by coastal erosion and rising sea levels driven ...

You would need more than one lifetime to visit all of Australia’s 8000-plus islands, but you can make a start ... Read More ...

Madona, a 183-meter long vessel built in 1982, sank about 200 nautical miles north of the Cocos Islands, south of Indonesia and west of Australia.

Divers clutch wooden spears as they plunge beneath the waves, hunting hordes of hungry starfish destroying the coral reefs ...