Where: Pohnpei Island, the capital of the Federated States of Micronesia and one of the many Caroline Islands in the warm Western Pacific. What: Micronesia’s definitive “garden isle ...

I’m panicked and soaked as smiling locals fish me out of the bay on the island of Pohnpei in Micronesia. “Trip of a lifetime,” I sarcastically thought as we made our way back to land with an ...

a couple of miles south of Pohnpei Island in Micronesia, holds some valuable lessons about recent climate change in the western Pacific. In 1850, Nahlapenlohd was so large that not only did it ...

Patrick D. Nunn receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change At first glance it may not seem so, but the story of the now-vanished island of ...

I eventually set foot on Pohnpei, one of the bigger islands of the Federate States of Micronesia. From there I took a four-seat charter plane to Pingelap.” Upon arrival, she found one street and ...

Pohnpei, an island state in the Pacific, etched a dazzling world I will never forget. Pohnpei and three island states form the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) in the western Pacific Ocean.

With support from the National Science Foundation, the research team collected cores of mangrove sediment on the islands of Kosrae and Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia. Although ...