Islands form in three main ways. Continental islands are created when land is cut off from a continent as melting ice caps raise the sea level and one-time surface connections are flooded. Volcanic ...

Bikini Atoll likely has the most misleading name in the history of islands -- more than Mexico's Isla Mujeres or England's Isle of Man. Far from being full of Insta-posing beach models, Bikini Atoll ...

Many coral reef islands, or atolls, are created by water moving sand and gravel, piling it up into consecutive ridged layers. However, new research has uncovered a different type of island ...