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Visit Kosterhavet, Sweden's First Marine National Park

If you're in the been-there, done-that traveler club, here's something to add to your next itinerary: Kosterhavet, Sweden's first national marine park, has just opened. It's about 175 square miles, most of it open ocean, home to some 600 marine species. The park's northern water boundary is share...

Silhouette: The Island of Mystery

Silhouette: The Island of Mystery

Many of you must have read Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island and Enid Blyton’s adventure stories that centre round islands – The Island of Adventure, Five on a Treasure Island and so on. Did you know that there is an island in the Indian Ocean t...

AZUL - Mexico All Inclusive Resorts for Families

More resorts keep popping up, in the Mayan Riviera south of Cancun (a great area for exploring outside your resort, with Mayan ruins, coral reef, cenotes, and eco-theme parks.)

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4-foot Worm Found in Cornwall

Matt Slater, a curator at the Blue Reef Aquarium in Newquay, Cornwall, England and his team were puzzled at the wreck their carefully grown coral reef had become. After weeks of watching the reef fall apart, they decided to take it apart to find the culprit. What they found was a giant reef worm!...

Underwater Panorama of the New Amedee Coral Reef

Ever wonder how a fish sees its environment? It’s probably pretty close to this panorama by Richard Chesher over at 360 Cities. Be sure to right click and select "stereographic projection" (it’s nearly 360 degree field of view all at the same time).

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