This Year's internship program supports five interns, each representing one of the five MC island jurisdictions of Republic of Palau, Republic of Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam.
About 200 people evacuated their homes in the capital of the Marshall Islands on Wednesday after big waves caused ocean inundation around the low-lying atoll. The waves combined with an otherwise unremarkable high tide on Wednesday, with more flooding feared for Thursday and Friday before the tid
The caretaker president of the Marshall Islands says it's unconscionable that the United States kept secret key information about its nuclear tests for decades.
This week, the Micronesia Conservation Trust or MCT through a grant from the Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies awarded subgrants to 15 organizations and communities in all five jurisdictions of the Micronesia Challenge or MC.
Former workers who entombed a radioactive waste site in the Pacific Ocean left a clear message before completing their work: a middle finger.
UH Hilo undergraduate Sabrina Bejang did not think she would ever choose marine biology for a career. Bejang, like many young Marshallese women, grew up wary of the ocean and knew little of the coral reef systems that make up Majuro atoll, the capital of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
There is a call for the United States to do more to help the Marshall Islands, where it conducted nuclear weapons tests more than 60 years ago. A large-scale investigation has found extremely high levels of radiation still persist in much of the country's north.
The United States of America, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia, as Pacific nations, jointly reaffirm our interest in a free, open, and prosperous Indo-Pacific region. Click on the link to read the full joint statement.
Speaking to students in Fiji, Guterres described the structure on Enewetak atoll in the Marshall Islands as "a kind of coffin" and said it was a legacy of Cold War-era nuclear tests in the Pacific. Click on the link below to read the full article.
