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

Scenes from the ground in the middle of the Pacific Ocean following a massive earthquake in Russia, and the resulting tsunami ...

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

The magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka coast triggered tsunami warnings as far away as French ...

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

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 ...

WASHINGTON (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 report this ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...