EJ Banfield’s The Confessions of a Beachcomber, published that same year, cast reef-dwelling organisms not as slackers but as warriors: “A coral reef is gorged with a population of varied elements ...

The water shimmers in myriad shades of blue. It shifts from sapphire to jade and iridescent turquoise as ... a giant manta ray glides like an apparition through the ocean’s inky depths. Lady Musgrave ...

A volcano began erupting in southwest Iceland on Tuesday, just hours after authorities evacuated a nearby community and the Blue Lagoon spa, one of Iceland's biggest tourist attractions.