HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawaii could see increased surf, humidity and light showers from Hurricane Walaka, but Johnston Atoll southwest of the state is in for a a much rougher ride. Four scientists ...

Hurricane Walaka, a dangerous Category 5 storm, maintained its intensity as it continued on a course toward Johnston Atoll, far southwest of the main Hawaiian islands. At 11 p.m. Monday, Walaka was ...

The Center for Biological Diversity has filed suit against U.S. government agencies for failing to release public records on plans to land rockets at Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. More ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We stopped actively updating this post on Tuesday, August 26, 2015, as it is moving away from Hawaii. If the track changes back towards the islands, we will update it as needed. At 5 ...

Three days west of Hawaii by ship, there lies a desolate strip of nothing named Johnston Atoll. Over the last century, the island has played host to a military base, thermonuclear warhead tests, and ...

You may not have heard about massive Category 4 hurricane Walaka or the tiny island it's scheduled to smash into, but the damage later Tuesday when Walaka hits Johnston Island in the Pacific could be ...

The Air Force has been given the go-ahead to proceed with treatment of dioxin and PCB contamination at three separate locations on Johnston Atoll. The Environmental Protection Agency regional office ...

This volume is a catalog of bird and rodent specimens collected on Johnston Atoll between July 1964 and December 1965 for the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program. Fields include species, field #, ...

We describe a new species of piroplasm from brown boobies (Sula leucogaster) on Sand Island, Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, central Pacific. Mean parasitemia in adults and chicks was less ...