While governments around the world have scrambled to install early warning systems and to improve infrastructure to make ...

By Tawada Yoko. Translated by Margaret Mitsutani. New Directions; 224 pages; $16.95. To be published in Britain by Granta in ...

The sliteye shark has been recorded for the first time on the Great Chagos Bank, the world's largest coral atoll structure—marking a major advance in understanding the geographic range of this ...

The agreement between the United Kingdom and Mauritius over the Chagos Archipelago, has been described by its prime minister as a "victory for international law, for postcolonial justice and above all ...

SHUYAK ISLAND, ALASKA—Alaska Public Media reports that archaeologists from the Alutiiq Museum have discovered several new Native American village sites on Shuyak Island, which is located in the Kodiak ...

The property includes a continuous series of coastal and marine ecosystems, corresponding to the marine and intertidal environments of the best-preserved areas of the Bijagós Archipelago in ...

Every summer, Finns, Danes, Swedes and Norwegians make an annual pilgrimage to their summer cabins, often in remote, off-grid island locations. Somewhere along the way, in the flurry of glacial fjords ...