An aquatic adventure in the western Pacific island nation of Palau — home to over 300 islands — highlights the reward of ...

Palau reefs are hosts to over 300 species of coral, nine species of sea grass, and 2,000 species of fish. Each member of this ecosystem depends the others to survive. When one piece of the link is ...

An Excerpt from the book, Palau, by Nancy Barbour ... and new more about the seasonal rhythms and life cycles of fish than is known by Western scientists today. While the sea was essentially ...

The most nautical Four Seasons has to be this scuba-centric ship, which sails a rarely visited corner of the Pacific.

"But everything has changed over the years and now the only way to know where the fish are going to be is ... "People in ...

to fish populations, or to the ocean itself, our people take note and our visitors do too. "Toxic sunscreen chemicals have been found throughout Palau's critical habitats, and in the tissues of ...

The millions of golden jellyfish that pack Palau’s Jellyfish Lake spend much of their lives on the move during a daily migration that follows the sun’s arc across the sky. Before sunrise ...

The ship was exploring the German Channel, a human-made channel carved into a barrier reef in Palau in the western Pacific. It’s a popular dive site known for colorful fish, sharks and manta rays.

DESCRIPTION: Humphead wrasse are enormous reef fish, having been measured as long as seven feet and weighing up to 420 pounds. The wrasse has thick, full lips and a forehead hump that becomes more ...