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.

The Cocos Keeling Islands make up barely 6 square miles in the Indian Ocean. It's a good place to measure debris because almost no one lives there. Scientists were flabbergasted by what they found.

The Cocos (Keeling) Islands are an Australian territory located in the Indian Ocean, about 3,000 kilometres north-west of Perth. (ABC Pilbara: Alice Angeloni)Only two of the 27 coral islands are ...

Only 0.001% of deep ocean has ever been explored by humans — an area equal to the size of Rhode Island; Mountainous territory . The tiny Cocos Islands, also known as the Keeling Islands after ...

The authorities' project has sparked outrage among the more than 600 inhabitants of this territory, located 2,936 kilometers west of Australia and also known as the Keeling Islands. Climate change ...

Cocos (Keeling) Islands' biggest employer Cocos Co-Op goes bust owing millions, ... and infrastructure across the remote Indian Ocean territory almost 3,000 kilometres north-west of Perth.

The Cocos are closer to the Strait of Malacca, a chokepoint for Chinese oil imports, than Diego Garcia, a key U.S. logistics hub in the Indian Ocean and a launch point for bombing missions during ...

Few tropical archipelagos are quite as beautiful, remote and appealingly quirky as the Cocos Islands, said Ruaridh Nicoll in the Financial Times (FT). Isolated in the Indian Ocean 660 miles south ...

Images were released earlier this month of several previously unknown fish discovered in the Indian Ocean off of Australia's remote Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park.

The deep sea batfish is one of several previously unknown creatures found below the surface of the Indian Ocean near the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park.

Kai the Fish Guy shows off strange deep-sea fishes found in the Indian Ocean : Short Wave Yi-Kai Tea, ... dozens of scientists mapped the ocean floor of Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park.

“We’ve used the full ocean depth mapping capabilities of RV Investigator to completely survey around the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, from coastal depths less than 100m all the way down to the ...