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I was just recently talking with a diving friend about the places I'd most like to dive, and both of us mentioned the Maldives. The Maldives are a cluster of small islands in the Indian Ocean whose elevation is just a meter or two above sea ...

And speaking of Bowermaster, because it's so dreary and hot outside, I figured you might enjoy a little visual respite. Go take a gander at this sweet little interactive feature about Bowermaster in the Maldives. You know the Maldives? The islands ...

A sweet little interactive feature in the Times by one of our favorites: Jon Bowermaster.   Bowermaster headed to the Maldives to report on the state of these little islands which, as many people know, may very well cease to exist ...

Give a gander at this series of wonderful Maldives photos. I honestly don't know why I have these islands on my mind right now, but I do. Probably the oppressive heat here in New York. The photos come from Ahmed Zahid and provide a lovely array of ...

The last time I was in the island nation of the Maldives – nearly 400,000 people scattered among 1,200 tiny islands running south for a thousand miles off the tips of Sri Lanka and India – the place was on edge. It was early in 2005 and ...

Mohammed Jarrad and his four-man crew left the dock in their slow-chugging dhoni at five this morning. When I meet them unloading the day's catch just as they sun disappears it means they've been at it for fourteen hours, a typical day for a ...

Late on a Sunday afternoon, hardly a day of rest in this part of the world, the small island of Eydhafushi is quiet. The men, most of who go to sea each day to fish or work at one of six nearby tourist resorts, are absent. School is out for a week's ...

When I was a little girl living under my parent's roof, my father would always tell me I had champagne taste on a beer budget. Well I suppose the same applies today though I'm no longer under his roof.  And I suppose I'm just another ...

The Maldives, an archipelago of over 1000 islands in the Indian Ocean known for their stunning beauty and expensive, luxurious resorts, aren't exactly cheap to visit. And they aren't about to get any cheaper. The President of the Maldives has ...

The president of the Maldives and his cabinet met underwater today to urge global cuts in carbon emissions. The Maldives are a beautiful archipelago of more than 1,000 islands in the Indian Ocean, famous for their clear waters, clean beaches, and ...

The call to Friday prayers on Eydhafushi are spread island-wide by plastic loudspeakers affixed to poles and buildings scattered around the Maldivian sand-spit, home to three thousand. When it comes I'm floating a quarter mile offshore and it wakes ...

Swimming along the coral edge of what transplanted marine biologist Anke Hofmeister calls her "home reef" the line dividing the shallows and deep blue is exact. To our left in the brightly sunlit coral, hundreds of shiny reef fish dart and feed; in ...

As for anyone who likes to dive, the Maldives have been high on my list for years. I have heard that virtually all of the 1200 coral islands are magnificent and the diving incredible. I haven't been able to swing a trip there yet, but I am thinking I ...

On Tuesday, a 15-year-old boy from the Maldives prevented a would-be assassin from stabbing the country's president during a stop in the north of the archipelago. The boy, Mohammed Jaisham Ibrahim, dressed in full Boy Scout uniform, was waiting to ...

Saffah Faroog sips a mango juice and continues explaining the history of the Maldives oldest environmental group, Bluepeace, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. He is its communications director, a volunteer like the rest of its staff, ...