The Journal of Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (*) has this month released a special issue focussing on Ascension Island’s marine biodiversity. Falklands' based SAERI Director Dr ...

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ASCENSION ISLAND AUXILIARY AIRFIELD --Space has been the center of conversation in the news and entertainment. There was even a movie about future human inhabitance on Mars. But how would that happen?

The rediscovery of a fern, long thought to be extinct, is part of a rescue effort to save the highly threatened, endemic plants of the tiny UK overseas territory of Ascension Island in the South ...

Fred Pearce (US and UK accused of 'squeezing life out of' Ascension Island, 12 September) misrepresents the government's position. The claim that Britain is uprooting families to make way for a US ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Editor's note: There’s a fascinating natural ...

The Government is reportedly considering reviving plans to fly people who arrive to the UK by unauthorised means to Ascension Island. Multiple reports say ministers and officials are considering the ...

THIS island is so remote that it lies 1600km from the nearest continent. Sinners and the sick were dropped off here years ago, and now it’s home to some very strange sights. Measuring 88 square ...

The runway at Georgetown Wideawake Airport on Ascencion Island will be repaired by 2022 allowing AirTanker-operated A 330-200 flights to return, Fluor, the company which won the contract, said in a ...

Ascension Island is home to the marlin species of fish The government is to create a marine reserve almost as big as the UK in the Atlantic waters of Ascension Island. Just over half of the protected ...

The government is to create a marine reserve almost as big as the UK in the Atlantic waters of Ascension Island. Just over half of the protected area will be closed to fishing. The fishery in the ...