The Maldives, which topped a ranking of world's most beautiful islands by readers of U.S. magazine Travel + Leisure last year ...

They enthralled sailors. They inspired Darwin. Then, by the mid 19th-century, the iconic Floreana tortoise was gone. Here’s ...

The sliteye shark has been recorded for the first time on the Great Chagos Bank, the world's largest coral atoll ...

The Malay Archipelago is the vast chain of islands stretching eastward from Sumatra for more than 6,000 kilometres. Most of it now falls within the sovereignties of Malaysia and Indonesia.

The Bajo, the world’s largest remaining sea nomad group, are scattered across hundreds of recently settled communities in Island Southeast Asia, along the coasts of Indonesia, Malaysia and the ...

Islands are natural laboratories where evolution can run rampant as plants and animals adapt to new environmental conditions ...

Huge 'sunspot archipelago' 15 times wider than Earth is spotted on the Sun - and scientists warn it could bombard our planet with solar flares capable of causing devastating blackouts ...

Based on iNaturalist entries, an application where anyone can post sightings of plant or animal species, researchers believe ...

A six-week period of extraordinary heat in 2024 melted 62 gigatonnes of ice on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, ...