As of publication, it’s just after 7 a.m. on Dec. 31, 2024, in Los Angeles, but it’s already 2025 in one part of the world.

Although huge fireworks over Sydney Opera House is often the first sign of New Year celebrations reported in the UK, our ...

The Gilbert Islands, which straddle the equator in the western Pacific, block 55% of the corridor between 2°S and 2°N. Here we explore the potential role of relatively small open-ocean topographic ...

Yet, forest conversion on Pacific atolls has scarcely received ... concentrators — restoring and protecting atoll ecosystems should be an ‘ocean health’ priority.” Fortunately, coconut ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity yawns out in front of you when you stand on the pale sands of this tiny Pacific island. Midway Atoll is just about the ...

The manuscript describes the coral atolls he encountered throughout the Pacific Ocean. Atolls are shallow lagoons surrounded by large coral reefs that seem to rise from the deep ocean. Prevailing ...

Kiribati, an island nation consisting of 32 atolls in the Pacific Ocean, is 20 to 22 hours ahead of Los Angeles and the rest of the Western United States (it spans three time zones), meaning that ...

Beyond the lagoon the ocean stretched to the horizon ... and editor Kennedy Warne has visited three of the atoll nations in his Pacific backyard that are most at risk from rising sea levels ...