If the ocean swell is too high, the safety of fishermen transiting out of the lagoon to open waters is threatened, homes and businesses may be flooded with seawater, roadways may become impassable, ...

The low-lying Marshall Islands, a Pacific atoll chain that rises barely a metre above sea level, has announced plans for a wall to hold back rising sea levels. "We want to prevent erosion and stop ...

In 2011, as an anxious Republican from Utah, I fly with my husband and nine-month-old son to Majuro Atoll, the capital of the Marshall Islands. We fly D.C. to L.A., L.A. to Honolulu, then Honolulu ...

Leaving Majuro was no easy decision, but Mona Jetnil had been ready for months. Here, in the capital of the Marshall Islands, just about everyone seems to be planning to leave. Mona’s house, on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo taken on March 3, 2014 shows residents looking at debris washed up and dumped across low-lying Majuro Atoll in the aftermath ...

MAJURO, Marshall Islands--A miniature replica of a Japanese tuna fishing boat whose crew encountered fallout from a U.S. thermonuclear test at Bikini Atoll in 1954 now takes pride of place in the ...