A team of scientists and conservationists created a plan to survey the debris field and mark it with satellite-tracked drifting buoys.

HONOLULU, Dec.

A Laysan albatross at least six decades into her life has stumped federal biologists by raising another chick.

A new NOAA report on the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI), protected by the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, provides the sharpest picture yet of the region's marine life and ecosystems.

12:35 P.M. CDT MRS. BUSH: Thanks, everybody, and thank you, Jim. Thanks so much. Thank you all. Governor Barbour, it's great to be here, and every time I'm back in Mississippi things look better and better.