The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius ... among the most pristine tropical coral reef ecosystems on our planet.

For years, China has taken over uninhabited reef islands and transformed ... handed Xi Jinping a major win after ceding the Chagos Islands, an archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean ...

As UK hands over Chagos Islands to Mauritius for £101 million a year in last-minute deal, here's all you need to know about ...

The Chagos archipelago includes roughly 60 islands in the central Indian ... roughly 18 species of seabirds and nearly 300 species of reef-building corals, considered some of the healthiest reefs in ...

In 2015 and 2016, a marine heat wave roiled reefs from the Chagos Archipelago to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Yet coral around bird-filled islands had more of the calcifying algae thought to ...

Britain signed a multi-billion dollar deal on the future of the Chagos Islands with Mauritius after a last-gasp injunction ...

The governments of Britain and Mauritius have reached a final deal to settle the future of the Chagos Islands but have been barred from signing it by a British judge ...

A jewel damselfish (Plectroglyphidodon lacrymatus) among the coral reef of a rat-free island ... Gunn chose 10 islands in the Indian Ocean’s Chagos Archipelago. Five were rat-infested with ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he has signed an agreement handing over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to ...

The Chagos Archipelago spreads out across 250,000 square ... Starting from the far north: Blenheim Reef, a treacherous marine structure about 20 miles in circumference that has caused the ...

The Chagos Islands, an archipelago of 58 islands in the Indian Ocean about halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia, were given to Britain by France in 1814 during the Napoleonic Wars. France ceded ...