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 ...

The early Palauans were perhaps once gifted navigators, but when they got to Palau they stayed. With an abundance of food from the fertile land and surrounding reef, there was no need to explore ...

Palau's President Tommy Remengesau said ... The International Coral Reef Foundation said the banned chemicals were "known environmental pollutants - most of them are... incredibly toxic to ...

Palau is set to become the first country to impose a widespread ban on sunscreen in an effort to protect its vulnerable coral reefs. The government has signed a law that restricts the sale and use ...

Taking a global perspective to find a sustainable future for coral reef and island ecosystems Palau and other Pacific states have abundant coral ecosystems and some of the world’s richest biodiversity ...

58, No. 5 (2013), pp. 1851-1870 (20 pages) Diel trends in carbon chemistry and hydrodynamic regimes were measured on a coral-dominated back-reef community in the Republic of Palau, western Pacific.