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 ...

The Ascension Islands Government Resources Directorate has announced new travel arrangements that will enable residents of St Helena to transit between the Falkland Islands and St. Helena via ...

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 ...

The UK government intended to introduce a five year trial which would see asylum seekers sent to Rwanda via a one way ticket, where they could claim asylum. Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson said ...

The rediscovery of a fern, long thought to be extinct, is part of a rescue effort to save the plants of the tiny UK overseas territory of Ascension Island in the South Atlantic – a fitting success ...

AT THE top of Green Mountain, the central peak of Ascension Island, there is a small pond, dotted with lilies, shadowed to one side by the fronds of a pandan tree. It is the only open body of fresh ...

A man punched a shark after it attacked his wife while the couple were snorkeling off Ascension Island. The shark bit the woman on the leg as they were swimming near the British territory off the ...

For the first time in living memory, young boobies, tropical gannet-like sea birds, are due to fledge from Ascension Island in the tropical Atlantic. The first flight, due this month, is good news for ...

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 ...