The Manhattan Project Beer Company, a Texas-based craft beer company, was called out for insensitivity this week by Pacific Islanders and the Marshall Islands government for naming one of its beers ...

In the wake of World War II, in a move closely related to the beginnings of the Cold War, the United States of America decided to resume nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean, on Bikini Atoll in the ...

Operation Crossroads, which had its first big event–the dropping of a nuclear bomb–on July 1, 1946, was just the beginning of the nuclear testing that Bikini Atoll would be subjected to. When the ...

MANY geography students may have come across the term, atoll. But for those who didn’t listen in their geography classes, the phenomenon may still be a mystery. Here we explain what an atoll actually ...

The Maldives isn’t just a destination, it’s a meditation in blue. A constellation of coral atolls scattered across the Indian ...

For fans of marine life, it's hard to think of a better destination than the Maldives' Baa Atoll. Experience Hanifaru Bay where you can see manta rays up close—and even whale sharks, if you’re lucky.

Between 1946 and 1958, the United States conducted 67 nuclear explosive tests at the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Now, researchers from Columbia University have tested the area for harmful ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Guam kingfisher was extinct in the wild for almost 40 years but this species was recently released into the wild on Palmyra Atoll where it is now breeding. A pair of Sihek or Guam Kingfisher ...

The Department of the Air Force has suspended plans to use an isolated Pacific island as a test site for landing rockets as it considers alternative sites. The service had chosen Johnston Atoll, an ...