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Chagos islanders cannot return home, UK Foreign Office confirms.

Why the World's Biggest Sharks Love Mafia Island.

Surprising Christmas Island Seamounts Mystery Solved.

For Pacific islands like Palau, Tuvalu and Kiribati, the implications of climate change are clear - and devastating. Already, these governments have begun to plan for a future in which entire populations have to relocate as their islands vanish under the rising sea. But climate change also threatens ways of life in subtler ways, leaving families around the world to work out for themselves how to cope.

In the Maldives, one of the world's lowest-lying countries, new and urgent solutions are needed to protect the islands from the impacts of climate change. Tourist resort owners and local communities are joining government authorities in efforts to make the islands more resilient.

Seychelles island of D'Arros becomes an official nature reserve.

Just one week after Chapala, another storm is targeting Socotra Island, Yemen.

Just one week after Chapala, another storm is targeting Socotra Island, Yemen.

China claims India's Andaman & Nicobar chain of Islands :: Wake-up call.

The Indonesian paradise island drowning in plastic.

On cyclone-shattered island in Mozambique, shock and debris.

Sea-level rise and wave-driven flooding will negatively impact freshwater resources on many low-lying atoll islands in such a way that many could be uninhabitable in just a few decades.

Reprieve for ABBOTT's booby after Christmas Island mining expansion ruled out.

How Disaster Aid Ravaged an Island People.

The world's animal distribution map will need to be redrawn and textbooks updated, after researchers discovered the existence of 'Australian' species on Christmas Island.

Speaking with: Peter GREEN on saving the Christmas Island red crab.

Just a month after the start of the Vendée Globe, on 6th December in the middle of the Indian Ocean to the north of the CROZET Islands, Kito DE PAVANT and his Bastide Otio hit an unidentified floating object. The damage was fatal for the boat and the skipper was forced to abandon the race and his monohull.... Fortunately, the French vessel, the MARION-DUFRESNE, which delivers supplies to the French islands in the Antarctic and Southern Ocean, was sailing close to the area when the incident happened. Kito was rescued and taken aboard the ship, which continued her delivery trip. A few months later, they were able to watch the videos recorded on the hard disk aboard the boat, and discovered that the unidentified object was in fact a sperm whale, which was clearly visible in the wake of the boat. You can watch the video here. Hang on tight!

The Growing Significance of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Islands Draw Record Backing to Protect Sharks From Fin Trade.

Kimberley native title claimants fear island will be handed to fish farmer.

Kangaroo Island: pioneering research examines health of sea lions - in pictures.