A very powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka coast on Wednesday triggered tsunami warnings as ...

One X post reads, “7FT TSUNAMI WAVES DETECTED AT MIDWAY ATOLL - HAWAII NEXT. NOAA sensors just recorded massive 7-foot surges ...

This remote Pacific island dive spot is dripping with intrigue, from its dark U.S. military past, to the shipwrecks and swarms of sharks below the surface.

We're waking to reports of Pacific basin-wide tsunami alerts having been issued by numerous countries after a magnitude 8.8 ...

For centuries people have braved the ocean to bring back yellowfin, skipjack, bigeye and albacore for their families.

Johnston Atoll, an unincorporated US territory and Pacific island wildlife refuge with a complicated military history, is no ...

WASHINGTON, July 4 (Reuters) - 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 ...

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 ...

Construction and performance of infiltration galleries (skimming wells): A review of applications to Pacific atoll islands. Journal of Hydrology, 2025; 651: 132581 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.132581 ...

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 ...

This loss of unique ecosystems on Pacific atolls is staggering. It even exceeds the rate of deforestation due to oil palm production, at least in relative terms, in other parts of the world.

More information: Michael W Burnett et al, Satellite imagery reveals widespread coconut plantations on Pacific atolls, Environmental Research Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad8c66 ...