Caretakers released six Guam kingfishers, a bird species known locally as sihek, into the wild on Palmyra Atoll on Sept. 23, ...

Today's climate change is man-made. The consensus in the climate science community is unequivocal, but in order to determine ...

Researchers led by Ryuhei Nakamura at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan and The Earth-Life ...

"The Secret History of Sharks" author John Long met with Live Science to discuss his new book, recent revelations about ...

This photo shows the Baker atomic bomb test during Operation Crossroads, a series of two nuclear weapons tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll. The UW Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium will ...

We must turn to the strong Pacific activists who have been mobilising for decades against both nuclear proliferation and ...

After four months of deadly unrest in New Caledonia, tensions in the French Pacific territory between the pro-independence ...

New Caledonia became French in 1853 under Emperor Napoleon III, Napoleon’s nephew and heir. It became an overseas territory ...

The chemical uniformity of Earth's mantle is greater than previously believed. Lavas from hotspots—whether erupting in Hawaii ...

Papahānaumokuākea Marine Debris Project has collected 786,287 pounds of derelict fishing nets and other debris from the vast ...

Diego Garcia, a UK-owned island 1,100 miles from the nearest major landmass, is a militarised and off-limits atoll at the ...