Between 1946 and 1958, the United States detonated 67 nuclear weapons across the Marshall Islands, turning remote Pacific atolls into irradiated proving grounds. Decades later, scientists diving into ...

What’s new: More than half of the tree cover in Pacific atolls is largely composed of “abandoned and overgrown” colonial-era coconut palm plantations, reveal satellite images in a study published in ...

Coconut palms are king throughout the tropics, serving as the foundation for human lives and cultures across the Pacific Ocean for centuries. However, 200 years of planting by colonial interests ...

In a significant demonstration of senior leadership engagement, the U.S. Army Garrison Kwajalein Atoll (USAG-KA) recently had ...

Hawaii conservation groups are voicing their opposition to plans by the U.S. Space Force to conduct cargo rocket testing at Johnston Atoll, a national wildlife refuge in the Pacific. The atoll, known ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force has suspended plans it had proposed with Elon Musk's SpaceX to test hypersonic rocket cargo deliveries from a remote Pacific atoll, according to a report this week in ...

WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Air Force has suspended plans it had proposed with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to test hypersonic rocket cargo deliveries from a remote Pacific atoll, according to a report this week in ...

2021 JUN 29 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Climate Change Daily News -- Researchers detail new data in Science - Climate Research. According to news reporting originating from ...

The introduction of large herbivorous animals into new regions for utilitarian purposes by people has been standard practice for millennia. When these animals have been brought into islands, the ...

Brown-footed boobies perch atop the posts of an old pier at Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the Pacific. Masked booby and chick. Many different species of birds occupy Johnston Atoll — part ...

Seabirds like these red-footed boobies do not nest in coconut palms, so the reduction of broadleaf forests would deprive the atoll of the nutrients from their droppings. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) — ...