This remote British territory in the South Pacific is surrounded by one of the world's largest marine reserves, protecting ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One of the world’s biggest mysteries may be one step closer to being solved. On Wednesday, a team of researchers from Purdue University took off from an Indiana Airport en route to ...

Japan is looking into using a remote deserted Pacific island nearly 2,000 kilometres (1,250 miles) from Tokyo as a site for ...

One of the most comprehensive surveys to date of shark and other large predator fish in the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP) ocean finds that remote marine protected areas (MPAs)—including the Galapagos ...

So when Earhart and the plane she was trying to fly around the world vanished in the South Pacific 88 years ago, the event sparked a global frenzy. The madness hasn’t stopped yet. A team of 14 ...

A third of fish living in the remote coastal waters of the Pacific Island Countries and Territories are contaminated with microplastics, with especially high rates in Fiji, according to an analysis ...

A new study found microplastics in nearly one-third of fish sampled across remote Pacific islands, with contamination rates ranging from just under 5% in Vanuatu to more than 74% in Fiji.

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