The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center says traditional crops like these can survive the fierce storms that often strike the islands.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

At the same time, they are seeking to re-establish natural water flow to the Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife refuge.

VOA: special.2010.09.21

You can usually find good clay in low areas of islands or land, especially if volcanoes helped form the land.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

In two thousand nine, a team of scientists spent two months researching blue holes on Bahamian islands including Andros and Abaco.

VOA: special.2010.11.10

Often,he would pass islands with strong enemy forces, cut off their supplies and leave them with no chance to fight.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

In a separate project, scientists identified seven new species of bamboo coral in deep waters near the Hawaiian Islands.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

These were the Hawaiian islands. Hawaii was an important port for American trade ships sailing between the United States and China.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

Also,it did not create ways to protect China and the islands in the South Pacific Ocean from Japanese expansion.

VOA: special.2010.12.16

Scientists used to think that the islands were connected to the South American mainland and floated out to sea slowly.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

Yellow fever is found mainly in Africa, the northern part of South America and the islands of the Caribbean Sea.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

It is really 10 telescopes that are as distant from one another as Hawaii and the United States Virgin Islands.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

The long-beaked echidna is an endangered animal that only lives north of Australia, on New Guinea and nearby islands.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

No one knows why. Roanoke is a low, narrow island between the mainland and the islands of the Outer Banks.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The Ecuadorian government has tried to enforce severe limits on the number of Ecuadorians who move to the islands.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

Seventy-one bird species have disappeared forever since people first arrived on the Hawaiian Islands one thousand seven hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

A new report in the journal Global Change Biology says the ecosystem of the Galapagos Islands has changed forever.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

The Hawaiian Islands were created in the middle of the Pacific Ocean as the plate moved slowly over a hot spot.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

Top winner Eric Yang will receive twenty-five thousand dollars for college and a trip to the Galapagos Islands this summer.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

More than one third of all threatened or endangered bird species in America live on the Hawaiian Islands.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

They were wrong. Instead,they sailed onto rocks near a small group of islands southwest of England's Atlantic coast.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

Other goals are creating better transportation between the islands and controlling development to preserve the state's natural beauty.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

There are treasures of ancient and current art from Asia, Africa,the Pacific islands and Central and South America.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

The Hawaiian Islands were formed starting millions of years ago by hot liquid rock flowing from undersea volcanoes.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

But scientists wonder how animals arrived on Galapagos if the islands were always so far from the mainland.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

Hundreds of the islands are only pieces of sand that extend a few feet out of the water.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

His music is a mix of American country and western, rock and the sounds of the Caribbean islands.

VOA: special.2010.03.22