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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Battle of Midway has assumed a place in American naval lore that has put it on par with other great battles in world ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity yawns out in front of you when you stand on the pale sands of this tiny Pacific island. Midway Atoll is just about the furthest ...

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 ...

1785 - The order is given to sell the last ship remaining in the Continental Navy, the frigate Alliance. No other Navy ships are authorized until 1794. 1898 - During the Spanish-American War, the ...

MIDWAY ATOLL — No one seems to know exactly who came up with the name or when it first was used, but they all seem to agree that it fits: gooney. As in gooney bird. More precisely, the Laysan ...

The site of the battle that turned the tide in favor of U.S. forces in the Pacific 60 years ago, Midway Atoll today is a national wildlife refuge. Background: The United States took formal possession ...