Banner image: The Marshall Islands’ new marine sanctuary will protect one of the most pristine areas of the Pacific Ocean. Image courtesy of Manu San Félix/National Geographic Pristine Seas.

Bleaching and some dead coral can be seen around Jarvis Island, which is part of the U.S. Pacific Remote Marine National Monument ... NOAA Fisheries’ Pacific Islands Science Center Coral ...

Pacific Remote Islands southwest of Hawaii, and the Lake Erie Quadrangle. Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument is also ...

SpaceX and the U.S. Air Force plan to test hypersonic cargo rockets on Johnston Atoll, a Pacific wildlife refuge home to over ...

According to biologists and experts who have worked on the 1-square-mile atoll — designated as a U.S. National Wildlife Refuge and part of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument ...