“This installation is important to both the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the U.S. Together we proactively protect the geography, ... 64 coral species, six marine mollusk species, ...

Biologists from The University of Texas at Arlington are the first to discover an invasive frog—the greenhouse frog—in the Marshall Islands, a sprawling Pacific nation of volcanic islands and ...

By Shanna Hanbury The Marshall Islands government has announced it will protect an area of the Pacific Ocean described as one of the most “remote, pristine” marine ecosystems on Earth. The ...

Fifteen species inhabit U.S. territorial waters in the Indo-Pacific region, around American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Pacific Remote Islands—a ...

Half a century after the last earth-shattering atomic blast shook the Pacific atoll of Bikini, the corals are flourishing again. Some coral species, however, appear to be locally extinct. One of ...

And a 2019 paper found that islands with plenty of seabirds tended to have more of this algae after coral bleaching events, compared with rat-infested islands. “That might speed recovery,” she ...

Marshall Islands declared ... and what coral reefs could be in the future if we so wish," he told AFP. The 2023 trip documented "little-known deep-sea communities with potentially new species ...

A New Marine Protected Area in the Marshall Islands Is Brimming With Life, ... who expect to find new species of fish and invertebrates living in the pristine ecosystem. ... [Coral reefs] have ...

Synodus autumnus, or the autumn lizardfish (Iroha-eso in Japanese), derives its name from its warm-toned coloration, ...

The Pacific elkhorn coral was found during underwater surveys at Arno atoll, in the Marshall Islands, by coral researcher Dr Zoe Richards of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies ...

On May 25, 1946, the United States detonated the first underwater nuclear bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands to see what kind of damage it would cause. This particular bomb, known by the ...