SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. & KWAJALEIN ATOLL, Marshall Islands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In the face of a changing climate that could make atolls and low-lying islands uninhabitable as early as 2030, the Marshall ...

While world leaders from wealthy countries acknowledge the “existential threat” of climate change, Tuvalu Prime Minister Kausea Natano is racing to save his tiny island nation from drowning by raising ...

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 ...

Make the journey to the Baa Atoll, Maldives, this season for mesmerising marine life encounters and a stay at one of the atoll’s newest island resorts. Make the journey to the Baa Atoll for marine ...

Such wells, also known as infiltration galleries or skimming wells, play a crucial role in extracting fresh groundwater on ...

For some, the notion of an isolated, utterly private Caribbean atoll may conjure up fantasies of tropical indolence — chaise lounges on a white-sand beach, umbrella drinks and perhaps a paperback.

MIDWAY ATOLL, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands — Flying into the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Midway Atoll appears out of the vast blue Pacific as a tiny oasis of coral-fringed land with ...

Gerd Masselink received funding from the Global Challenges Research Fund for this research. Paul Simon Kench receives funding from: Catalyst Fund: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, NZ ...

A Texas-based company is facing backlash after it named a beer after Bikini Atoll, the site of U.S. nuclear tests that sickened and displaced islanders and led to contamination that remains today.