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Picture: Sylvia Earle’s Blue World

Sylvia Earle's Blue World

Fresh from her dives at Cocos and Las Gemelas, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle appears tonight with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report, where she’ll discuss her new book, The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One. Read More

Picture: A Message of Hope Photography by Enric Sala

A Message of Hope

We have returned to mainland Costa Rica, after three amazing weeks at Cocos Island and Las Gemelas seamounts. What have we learned? Read More

Picture: The Pirate’s Cove Photograph by Ford Cochran

The Pirate's Cove

Through the years, many visitors to Cocos Island have carved their names into large stones on the beach at Chatham Bay. Read More

Video: River of Sharks

The night belongs to whitetip reef sharks, which sleep by day but patrol the seafloor after dark near Cocos Island. Read More

Video: Into the Abyss

With the DeepSee submersible, Enric Sala, Sylvia Earle, Jorge Cortés, and other expedition scientists probe depths beyond the reach of scuba divers at Cocos Island and Las Gemelas seamounts. Read More