MANY geography students may have come across the term, atoll. But for those who didn’t listen in their geography classes, the phenomenon may still be a mystery. Here we explain what an atoll actually ...

The Guam kingfisher was extinct in the wild for almost 40 years but this species was recently released into the wild on Palmyra Atoll where it is now breeding. A pair of Sihek or Guam Kingfisher ...

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 ...

A 75-year-old bird has returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge for the 2025/2026 nesting season. She is the oldest ...

You can see the large white seabirds dancing, preening, feeding and raising young—though the live feed might show a dark side of island living, too, with potential predation from invasive mice ...

You can reach the Ruined Atoll in one of two ways: 1. Go to the southern beach on the Overworld and walk alongside the bridge until you find a ladder that will let you climb up to reach the entrance.

In the wake of World War II, in a move closely related to the beginnings of the Cold War, the United States of America decided to resume nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean, on Bikini Atoll in the ...

A strong earthquake that hit near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, June 30, triggered tsunami warnings and evacuation orders for Japan, parts of Russia, Alaska and the Pacific. Several ...

Now that you've emerged from the Frog's Domain with the Magic Orb, you'll be able to get to many out of reach areas not just in the Ruined Atoll but throughout the rest of the world. But now that ...

Here Baa Atoll Maldives has officially opened Somewhere Island, welcoming its first guests on Monday 15 December. Located in ...