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HONOLULU (AP) — The Midway Atoll, a far-flung speck of coral reef halfway between Asia and North America, is the eye-catching backdrop for President Barack Obama’s latest call for environmental ...

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 ...

Wisdom the Laysan albatross, known as the oldest known banded bird in the wild, has defied the odds again. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials said Wisdom, approximately 74 years old, returned to ...

A strong earthquake that hit near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, June 30, triggered tsunami warnings and evacuation orders for Japan, parts of Russia, Alaska and the Pacific. Several ...

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