MIDWAY ATOLL, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands — Flying into the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Midway Atoll appears out of the vast blue Pacific as a tiny oasis of coral-fringed land with ...

David Attenborough's Ocean documentary shows how filmmakers captured coral bleaching, bottom trawling, plankton and the world ...

The Battle of Midway in June 1942 marked a critical turning point in the Pacific Theater of World War II. As American forces strategically countered a surprise Japanese attack, air and naval combat ...

Nancy Caruso sat on an island in the North Pacific Ocean just inches from an albatross and watched as the large black-and-white seabird with a 12-foot wingspan added grass to its nest to cover up a ...

MIDWAY ATOLL, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (AP) — Flying into the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Midway Atoll appears out of the vast blue Pacific as a tiny oasis of coral-fringed land ...

During WWII — just six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor — Japanese warplanes attacked the Midway Atoll, a tiny group of islands about 1,300 miles northwest of Honolulu and roughly halfway ...

Laysan finches, also known as ekupuu in Hawaiian, were once found throughout the main Hawaiian isles but can now only be found at Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. Known for their varied ...