For the first time in living memory, young boobies, tropical gannet-like sea birds, are due to fledge from Ascension Island in the tropical Atlantic. The first flight, due this month, is good news for ...

Ascension Island is a tiny dot of green in the tropical mid-Atlantic, a volcanic outpost of empire where it's hot and cold at the same time. It's a place where Charles Darwin helped inspire an ...

Ascension Island is one of the remotest inhabited locations on the planet. Lying just south of the Equator, the nearest continental land mass is Africa, 1,000 miles to the north-east. Travelling ...

They call it “The Cage” and not without reason. The holding area at Ascension Island’s military airport has the look and feel of a prison exercise yard, without room to actually exercise. Ordinarily ...

The government has considered building an asylum processing centre on a remote UK territory in the Atlantic Ocean. The idea of "offshoring" people is being looked at but finding a suitable location ...

Various radar and radio masts are visible in the lava fields on Ascension Island, with Green Mountain in the background (Getty/iStock) It’s a daunting, inhospitable-looking prospect, accentuated by ...

Understanding people's attitudes to interactions with sharks could help halt the global decline of shark numbers, according to new research carried out on Ascension Island. In 2017, there were two non ...

The state of 2020 means it now takes a *lot* for us to find a news story shocking. But Priti Patel has delivered. On Wednesday, the Financial Times revealed that the home secretary had previously ...

The runway at Georgetown Wideawake Airport on Ascencion Island will be repaired by 2022 allowing AirTanker-operated A 330-200 flights to return, Fluor, the company which won the contract, said in a ...

The government has considered building an asylum processing centre on a remote UK territory in the Atlantic Ocean. The idea of "offshoring" people is being looked at but finding a suitable location ...