When planes fall from the sky, as a Yemeni airliner did on its way to Comoros Islands in the India ocean June 30, 2009, the black box is the best bet for identifying what went wrong.

A man called Naddodd was on his way from Norway to the Faroe Islands, north of England, when his ship was caught in a storm.

Scientists identified 20 of the one-meter-long snakes during two trips to the Caribbean islands.

For example, the 250,000 people who live on Vanuatu's 80 islands speak 110 different languages.

king penguins are the second-largest type of penguin and only breed on specific isolated islands in the Southern Ocean where there is no ice cover and easy access to the sea.

Only a handful of islands in the Southern Ocean are suitable for sustaining large breeding colonies.

The code talkers worked mostly in the islands in the Pacific.

Three-quarters of the world's flamingos fly over from other salt lakes in the Rift Valley and nest on salt-crystal islands that appear when the water is at a specific level一too high and the birds can't build their nests, too low and predators can move bri

Even this increase could sink some islands, worse drought (干旱) and drive a decline of up to a third in the number of species.

At issue is the TMT's planned location on Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano worshiped by some Hawaiians as the piko that connects the Hawaiian Islands to the heavens.