While the Cocos (Keeling) Islands are about to mark the 40th anniversary of a vote to integrate with Australia, longstanding issues of inequality make the milestone far from celebratory.

The Cocos Islands are part of the low-lying island nations that are already forced to contemplate their future. Australia, one of the main emitters of greenhouse gases, ...

Cocos (Keeling) Islands Shire chief executive Frank Mills said there was no space to take any more waste. "In one word, it's a nightmare," Mr Mills said. Dump sites on Home and West Island.

Bound for Ceylon after an exhausting three-month-long visit to Australia and New Zealand. Britain's globe-girdling Queen Elizabeth last week stopped to pay a brief call on one of her quietest ...

The Cocos are relatively new — “there wouldn’t have been much here when Jesus was walking,” I’m told — but parrotfish have been busy since, pooing enough coral sand for 27 islands.

Cocos Island will benefit from $16 million from the Global Environment Facility for environmental protection.Authorities from Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador met this week in Costa Rica ...

If you are planning to travel to Cocos Islands or any other city in Cocos (Keeling) Islands, this airport locator will be a very useful tool. This page gives complete information about the Cocos ...

The Pew Charitable Trusts commended the impact of satellite technology on managing and conserving Cocos Island National Park. By tracking illegal fishing activities and enabling swift, preventive ...

The islands are now the center of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park, a 180,330 square-mile (467,054 square kilometers) protected area that has never before been mapped in high resolution.

Cocos Island National Park, located 550 km off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, is the only island in the tropical eastern Pacific with a tropical rainforest. Its position as the first point of ...

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 ...