The luxury of a vacation on these islands makes pitching in with a little voluntourism feel like no biggie. On a prior trip ...

This atoll, also known as Kaafu Atoll, is where you'll find the international airport, the capital city, plenty of popular dive sites, several "guesthouse islands" and more than a dozen resorts. A lot ...

Australia has started ferrying immigrants to the barren Pacific nation of Nauru under a contentious deal inked this year, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said Tuesday. Burke did not detail how many ...

PALYMYRA ATOLL, Hawaii (KHON2) — Nature has an amazing ability to recover from human interference. But, sometimes, even nature a bit of help to reverse human interference. This has lead organizations ...

In 1891, French impressionist painter Paul Gauguin was famously besotted and inspired by the islanders and the stunning ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Johnston Atoll, with its Hawaiian name Kalama, is about 825 miles southwest of Hawaii in the Central Pacific. The unincorporated U.S. territory is in a preserve called the ...

New IMAX film 'Hidden Pacific' documents remote underwater wonders, including 'one of the last pristine wildernesses on Earth,' and shows the importance of protecting our wild marine national ...

Operation Crossroads, which had its first big event–the dropping of a nuclear bomb–on July 1, 1946, was just the beginning of the nuclear testing that Bikini Atoll would be subjected to. When the ...

Between 1946 and 1958, the United States conducted 67 nuclear explosive tests at the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Now, researchers from Columbia University have tested the area for harmful ...

It's been more than 60 years since the U.S. dropped 23 atomic bombs on Bikini Atoll, a small ring of sand and sea teeming with corals in the Pacific Ocean. Now, scientists are trying to figure out why ...

KAHULUI–A team of twelve from the Papahānaumokuākea Marine Debris Project (PMDP), a Hawai’i-based non-profit organization, returned to Honolulu, having conducted their first of three marine debris ...