The islands of Tristan da Cunha are the most remote populated place on the planet which can only be reached by a six-day ship ...

The geochemistry of their lavas may provide a window into processes occurring deep inside our planet. In this issue ... mechanisms for the creation of ocean islands and seamounts, and highlight ...

Today, these labyrinthine passages host a variety of tiny sea creatures found nowhere else on the planet ... still live on oceanic islands where they evolved in the absence of predators and ...

Even on the main island, Mahé—the hub for international ... is home to hundreds of species not found anywhere else on the planet, from ocean-swimming turtles to iconic land-dwelling giant ...

The Galápagos have some of the planet’s healthiest tropical ... with flamingos—is that four main ocean currents of varying temperatures bathe the islands. The deep, cold Equatorial ...

The surface of the planet is changing all the time, and a new volcanic island is emerging in Tonga ... of yellow sulfur mixing with the blue ocean to give the plumes a greenish hue,” said ...