What Lives At The Bottom Of The Mariana Trench? Lying off the eastern coast of the Philippines is an underwater canyon so deep that you could hide Mount Everest in it with more than 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) to spare. In perpetual darkness, and faced with incredible pressure, it’s easy to imag Read more ... ine that the Mariana Trench is one of the most inhospi...

Portraits Of Typhoon-Ravaged Saipan Reveal Resiliency Amidst Ruin Updated September 23, 2015 at 11:45 a.m. HST. It's been nearly two months since Typhoon Soudelor made a direct hit on Saipan, the most populated island among the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S

Portraits Of Typhoon-Ravaged Saipan Reveal Resiliency Amidst Ruin It's been nearly two months since Typhoon Soudelor made a direct hit on Saipan, the most populated island among the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. Commonwealth located in Micronesia. But, despite local

How Come American Samoans Still Don’t Have U.S. Citizenship at Birth? After an Appeals Court ruling on Friday, American Samoa remains the only place in the United States where U.S. citizenship is not granted at birth. As my colleague Mark Joseph Stern explained recently, anyone born in the other four unincorporated U.S Read more ... . territories—Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the...

The Pentagon Wants To Bomb The Hell Out Of This Tiny Pacific Island Pagan island is a biologically diverse, 10-mile-long island anchored by two volcanoes in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, an independent government association...

The Pentagon Wants To Bomb The Hell Out Of This Tiny Pacific Island This Is Pagan Island Pagan island is a biologically diverse, 10-mile-long island anchored by two volcanoes in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, an independent government associ

The Pentagon Wants To Bomb The Hell Out Of This Tiny Pacific Island This Is Pagan Island Pagan island is a biologically diverse, 10-mile-long island anchored by two volcanoes in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands...

The Pentagon Wants To Bomb The Hell Out Of This Tiny Pacific Island This Is Pagan Island Pagan island is a biologically diverse, 10-mile-long island anchored by two volcanoes in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands...

NWS Warns of "Devastating Damage" as Typhoon Churns Towards Guam Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands--both territories of the United States--are bracing for a punch from a strengthening typhoon in the western Pacific. The National Weather Service issued a sobering statement that “devastating damage is likely� Read more ... � as the typhoon passes very close to the islands on Friday.

Chasing the Northern Lights On The Lofoten Islands Ignacio Palacios tells the story of returning to the Lofoten islands after 11 years, and chasing the northern lights.