The Cocos Islands are a group of 27 atolls with a height of just five meters. The territory is threatened by coastal erosion and rising sea levels caused by climate change .

It is made with sea salt from the clear waters of the Indian Ocean that surrounds the coral atoll – 3,000km north of Perth. "It gets back to that simple thing in life; efforts of sourdough bread ...

The tiny Cocos Islands, also known as the Keeling Islands after the British sea captain who first reported their existence in 1609, are a pair of atolls made up of 27 coral islands.

Scientists explored the recesses of the ocean floor off the Cocos (Keeling) Islands near Australia. They found a host of bizarre sea creatures, from the tribute spiderfish to the bony-eared assfish.

MELBOURNE, Australia (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - A spiderfish, a blind eel, and a deep-sea batfish are among the incredible creatures recently discovered in a remote part of the Indian Ocean. The ...

Almost 6,000km from Canberra, voters on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island say they're being treated as an afterthought – at best – by the candidates vying for their vote.

Nicknamed the donut sea slug for obvious reasons, this nautical nudibranch recently starred in Bryan Blauvelt’s Underwater Photographer of the Year Macro Runner-Up-Winning image, Dazzling Donut ...

A mind-boggling 400 million pieces of trash – that's 260 tons – were recently discovered on the beaches of the remote Cocos Keeling Islands, a chain some 1,300 miles northwest of Australia.

Almost 1 million shoes and over 370,000 toothbrushes – they’re among the 414 million pieces of plastic found washed ashore on the remote Cocos (Keeling) Islands, according to new research.

The Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian territory made up of 27 islands inhabited by about 600 people, sit 2,760 kilometers (1,715 miles) northwest of Perth in the Indian Ocean.