As the Japanese Empire was planning to conquer the Pacific, they realized they would have to deploy their forces to many small islands or atolls where building an airstrip would be hard or impossible.

Novelist Richard Powers has written another love letter to the planet—in this case, the 99 percent of Earth’s biosphere that ...

The Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl The 1947 He prepared an audience expedition with 5 adventurous companions, ...

The birds were eliminated when the invasive brown treesnake was accidentally introduced to the island of Guam in the ’40s.

One of the birds that laid eggs was born at the Cincinnati Zoo, which played a key role in the decades-long project.

America’s marine protected areas help fish populations thrive. Trump’s plan to open them to industrial fishing may ultimately ...

McGill University researchers, in collaboration with Mexican scientists, have discovered two previously unknown species of ...

Mr. Trump issued an executive order opening up the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument, which lies some 750 ...

The single greatest threat to the diversity of life in our oceans over the past 50 years, more than climate change or plastic ...

The Guam kingfisher is no longer found in Guam, but thanks to the help of a handful of zoos, including Cincinnati's, there's ...

The sihek bird, once extinct in the wild, laid its first eggs after being reintroduced to Palmyra Atoll in a conservation milestone.