In the 1970s, a huge concrete dome was built on Runit Island to cover some 85,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste dumped by ...

We've visited ground zero. Not once, but three times. But for generations, before these locations were designated as such, ...

Colgate University Assistant Professor of Geography Emily Mitchell-Eaton spoke on Indigenous Pacific Islander — or Pasifika — ...

and maritime militia vessels following a tense standoff at the disputed atoll in 2012. The Chinese Navy said it expelled BRP Apolinario Mabini after allegedly intruding into the territorial waters of ...

Palmyra Atoll, which lies about 900 miles south of Hawaiʻi, is one of several atolls and islands included in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. An executive order on Thursday ...

The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large distances Kevin Gepford Life on Aldabra atoll, on the western fringe of ...

(Reuters/Erik De Castro/File Photo) BEIJING — China’s coast guard said on Thursday it had allowed a Philippine civilian vessel to deliver provisions to a warship “illegally grounded” at the Second ...

BEIJING - China's coast guard said on Thursday it had allowed a Philippine civilian vessel to deliver provisions to a warship "illegally grounded" at the Second Thomas Shoal, a disputed atoll in ...

China Says Philippines Sent Supplies to Warship at Disputed Atoll BEIJING (Reuters) - China's coast guard said on Thursday it had allowed a Philippine civilian vessel to deliver provisions to a ...

“Installing rocket landing pads on Johnston Atoll cannot occur without significantly disrupting wildlife..." The U.S. military is considering Johnston Atoll, a remote Pacific island chain that ...

Home to nearly 1.5 million seabirds of 15 species, including the world’s largest colony of Red-tailed Tropicbirds, Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge is again being eyed by the U.S. military, ...

Last week, members of the Utah Legislature sent a bipartisan letter to leaders of Congress asking them to support and renew the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act that expired last summer. In all ...