Uninhabited Midway Atoll covered with trash, dead birds The atoll is littered with bird skeletons that have brightly colored plastic protruding from their decomposing bellies ...

Albatross fly with the prevailing winds along the north shore of Sand Island/Midway Atoll over the native naupaka (Naupaka kahakai). Volunteers and U.S. Fish and Wildlife staff have been working ...

MIDWAY ATOLL - The long stretch of atolls and coral reefs northwest of the main Hawaiian islands is so precious humans generally aren’t allowed to venture there.

Eight million tons of plastic end up in our oceans every year. What it's done to this island is a stark warning.

Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge also is nesting ground for 14 other species of migratory seabirds and the endangered Hawaiian monk seal.

The sun’s glint beams off a partly cloudy Pacific Ocean. This photograph was taken from the International Space Station as it orbited 260 miles above and northwest of Midway Atoll ...

In college, biologist Jimmy Breeden learned to identify bird songs — and in them, he heard his life's calling. His passion has taken him from the Smoky Mountains to a remote island in the middle ...

Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge is receiving daily deliveries of goods that it did not request, courtesy of ocean currents.

Wisdom, the legendary Laysan albatross or mōlī, stands at center over her recently laid egg with other seabirds around the ground nest on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, Nov. 27, 2024.

Midway is littered with bird skeletons that have brightly colored plastic protruding from their decomposing bellies. Bottle caps, toothbrushes and cigarette lighters sit in the centers of their ...

MIDWAY ATOLL, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands — The Battle of Midway was a major turning point in World War II’s Pacific theater. The remote atoll where thousands died is now a delicate ...

Midway Atoll albatross count: 1.39 million Albatross tally is the highest ever at spec-of-a-place Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, which boasts the world's largest albatross population.