Photograph by Vlad Sokhin, Panos Low-lying nations further north in the Central Pacific are particularly vulnerable to sea level rise. Most of these islands are coral atolls, or ring-shaped reef ...

Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation on the frontline of ... Around the world, sea level rise is encroaching on coastal regions. Island nations like Tuvalu are particularly vulnerable.

The plan to gradually discharge more than a million tons of treated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has deeply divided nations and scientists. On February 21, 2021, a Tokyo ...

Along the river's banks, you can still hear eulachon spoken of as saak, their name in the language of the Nisga'a, one of the indigenous peoples known in Canada as First Nations and in the U.S. as ...

Explorer in Residence Enric Sala and the National Geographic Pristine Seas team launched The Global Expedition, a five-year ocean venture exploring the remote tropical Pacific. The mission aims to ...

The largest coral ever recorded has been discovered by scientists in the Solomon Islands. Sitting at 18 feet high, 112 feet wide, and 105 feet long, the massive coral is bigger than a blue whale ...

"I don't think the scale of what had happened hit us until we reached the site," says Frontin-Rollet, who is from New Zealand’s National ... along with other nations of the Pacific Ring of ...