The maps showed that coconut palms covered 58.3% of the islands ... that with Pacific atolls facing growing climate threats, “it’s critical to figure out where these abandoned plantations ...

However, it was quickly revealed to be an uninhabited island covered ... the Republic of Kiribati in the South Pacific, the BBC reported at the time. The island, which is a coral atoll, has ...

For much of the 20th century, phosphate mining was Nauru’s golden ticket. It was discovered in the early 1900s and was ...

The Marshall Islands government has announced it will protect an area of the Pacific Ocean described ... covers two of the country’s northernmost uninhabited atolls, Bikar and Bokak, and the ...

Cook Islands News reached out to the Leader of the Opposition Tina Browne for comment on Heather's no confidence motion. The ...

Nauru, a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean, was once the wealthiest country in the world in terms of GDP per capita, with its ...

The Cook Island News reported on Wednesday the move followed Brown's lack of consultation with New Zealand over the comprehensive strategic partnership with China and his push for a now-abandoned ...

Nauru, a tiny island country in Micronesia, was once one of the wealthiest nations in the world in terms of GDP per capita, ...

such as this abandoned Japanese tank on the island of Kosrae in Micronesia. During the war, Kosrae and other islands in the northwest Pacific Ocean became significant in the Japanese-American ...

I’m drawn from my bed at dawn, lured by something deep and impossible to ignore – an evolutionary impulse, perhaps – to the ...

Like many Pacific islands, the low-lying Marshall Islands is highly vulnerable ... It covers 48,000km2 — dwarfing Switzerland — and surrounds the uninhabited atolls of Bikar and Bokak, which are ...

Like many Pacific islands, the low-lying Marshall Islands ... It covers 48,000 square kilometres and surrounds the uninhabited atolls of Bikar and Bokak, which are renowned green turtle nesting ...