An alternative to dredging aims to capture moving sand to protect the archipelago from erosion and rising seas.

Sea levels rising and falling over hundreds of thousands of years may have helped build the oceanic structures ...

The fish were found between two atolls, or ring-shaped reef island, in the central Maldives, an archipelago off the southeastern coast of India and Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean. The research team ...

Landaa Giraavaru is a private island home to the Four Seasons' Maldivian outpost in a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. The best surfing spots are on Thulusdhoo Island, where visitors and locals can mingle.

Beyond the reef, adventure seekers can set sail on a sunset cruise, embark on dolphin-spotting excursions, or island-hop their way through the Maldives’ breathtaking atolls. World Ocean Day ...

Alternatively, they can spend their Maldives vacation on a liveaboard vessel, which cruises around for five to seven days, stopping at three or even four different dive sites daily. Central atoll ...

Which is why the scientists used the Maldives to flesh out their ... drop and rise and drop again, a circular atoll gradually forms around the central depression, or lagoon. Darwin didn’t ...