The 15-island country is named for a British explorer, but a member of the committee looking at the issue said that “now we can have a name we choose.”
Tag: Pacific Ocean
A Young Island on Earth May Reveal Clues to How Water Shaped Mars
NASA has closely studied the island, created four years ago by a volcanic eruption in the Pacific. Recently, one of its scientists was able to travel there to take on-the-ground measurements.
Scientists Single Out a Suspect in Starfish Carnage: Warming Oceans
A new study sheds light on a huge die-off of starfish along the Pacific Coast from Mexico to Alaska.
It Took On the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Now It’s in Pieces.
A giant boom was dispatched to tackle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but the forces of nature may have been too much for it. Its inventors plan to try again.