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Majuro, MARSHALL ISLANDS — The Marshall Islands has created its first marine protected area, with one marine scientist describing it as one of the most spectacular places on earth.
The country is putting two of its most remote atolls, Bikar and Bokak, under protection from fishing, covering 48,000...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Influence and contact with different groups of European explorers brought huge changes to the once-simple life of people in the Marshall Islands. These changes could have flushed the islanders' traditions and beliefs into oblivion if not for the stories and legends...
Majuro, MARSHALL ISLANDS — The Marshall Islands is today remembering those affected by nuclear testing in their country.
1st March is a national holiday to allow people to commemorate Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day.
It was 1st March, 1954, when the United States most powerful hydrogen bomb...
Majuro, MARSHALL ISLANDS — The Marshall Islands has issued a plea for help and a call to action at the US Leaders Summit on Climate Change.
Addressing the virtual meeting on Friday, President David Kabua laid out the existential threat facing his country and the Pacific.
Kabua is the lone Pacific...
Majuro, MARSHALL ISLANDS — The Marshall Islands says it will ensure the Pacific voices are heard at today's US Leaders Summit on Climate Change.
The Marshalls is the only Pacific nation invited to US President Joe Biden's summit table.
President David Kabua, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda...
Majuro, MARSHALL ISLANDS — The man at the center of Micronesia's departure from the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) says the move puts them in a good position to help shape the architecture of a rejuvenated regional body.
Earlier this month the Marshall Islands' diplomat Gerald Zackios was passed-over...
Marjuro, MARSHALL ISLANDS — Tuna transshipment activity in the Marshall Islands picked up in October, but remains low compared to the past six years that saw Majuro become the world's busiest port for such transshipment.
Covid-19 quarantine requirements have reduced the number of purse seine...
Majuro, MARSHALL ISLANDS — The first group of Marshall Islanders from a location with widespread Covid-19 could be repatriated later this month.
The groundwork for several hundred islanders stranded in the United States to return home could begin soon.
Government officials confirmed that planning...
Kwajalein Atoll, MARSHALL ISLANDS — A new report on the contamination near a US Army Garrison in the Marshall Islands confirms that fish around Kwajalein Island contain dangerous levels of toxic chemicals.
The latest US Army report confirms that fish in many locations on Kwajalein Island and nearby...
Bikini Atoll, MARSHALL ISLANDS — New research suggests the soil on four isles of the Marshall Islands have higher concentrations of nuclear radiation than is found near Chernobyl.
The Marshall Islands is where the United States conducted its nuclear testing in the 1940s and '50s.
The research,...

![Fore reef of Bokak Atoll, an excellent example of healthy coral reefs. [Photo: ©Enric Sala/National Geographic] Fore reef of Bokak Atoll](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/marshall_is_marine_protected_area.jpg?itok=zf7RfoUg)
![Interior of a house in the Ratak Chain 1821 from the first English edition of Otto von Kotzebue's account of his 1815 – 1818 voyage. [photo: Pacific Island Times] Interior of a house in the Ratak Chain](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/marshall_islands_copy.jpg?itok=7P2jVmTR)
![The last church service on Bikini Atoll shortly before the islanders were removed by the U.S. Navy for the start of nuclear weapons testing on the atoll. Photo: US Navy. [photo: Supplied/ Giff Johnson] Women at last church service on Bikini Atoll](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/eight_col_1946-women-in-church.jpg?itok=uC0YYZPP)

![Flooding caused by huge spring tides which Marshall Islands officials have blamed on climate change. That no other Pacific Islands representatives were among the leaders invited by Biden has raised eyebrows in the region, particularly with the Marshalls no longer a member of the Pacific Islands Forum following its decision to withdraw from the regional body after the outcome of the recent election of the secretary-general position. [photo: AFP via RNZ Pacific] Tide waters flooding in Marshall Islands](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/marshall_tides_web.jpg?itok=Z4JTrTqo)
![Gerald Zackios, who was passed over recently in his bid to head the Pacific Island Forum. He is shown here with supporter Marshall Islands president David Kabua. The perceived snub angered Micronesian leaders who had been clear in the lead-up to the decision that they believed it was the northern Pacific's turn for the top job. [photo: Giff Johnson / RNZ Pacific] Gerald Zackios and David Kabua](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/pacific_regionalism.jpg?itok=Xtsww8VM)
![Tuna transshipment picked up in Majuro last month, but is still far off its average of the past five years. [photo: RNZ Pacific / Giff Johnson] Tuna in a net on deck of purse seiner](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/tuna_marshallsweb.jpg?itok=o5EVsATO)
![Marshall Islands border protection against Covid-19 includes spraying by EPA staff of mail and cargo [photo: Marshall Islands EPA] Spraying by EPA staff of mail and cargo](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/mail_spraying_epa_.jpg?itok=JDBATE6z)
![An aerial view of Kwajalein Island, headquarters of the US Army Garrison-Kwajalein Atoll [Photo: RNZ Pacific / Giff Johnson] An aerial view of Kwajalein Island, headquarters of the US Army Garrison-Kwajalein Atoll](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/webeight_col_kwajalein_aerial_landing_from_west.jpg?itok=XpYZnVMY)
![Containment of nuclear waste in the Marshall Islands. [Photo: Supplied] Photo of containment of nuclear waste in the Marshall Islands.](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/four_col_eight_col_renuit.jpg?itok=d-C3t-1-)