The Maldives is also the lowest-lying country ... In 2004, the government inaugurated Hulhumalé, a 4-square-kilometre artificial island built just north of Malé to relieve acute housing ...

In the Maldives, rapid construction of artificial islands is underway to combat coastal erosion that disrupts the lives of people near the shore, but with the construction come new difficulties.

Here are some of the most beautiful, bizarre, and creative artificial islands that human ingenuity has put together. Thilafushi The Maldives, a tropical paradise in the Indian Ocean, is mostly a ...

Hulhumale, an artificial island in the Maldives, is twice the size of the nearby capital island Male. Nasheed’s predecessor, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, was the first to ring the alarm of the possible ...

New islands are regularly built in the Maldives near popular spots, often to create new resorts. Michaela Strachan travels to the Maldives to find out how scientists are working on a more ...