An invasive brown tree snake population has been found on Cocos Island, an 83.1 acre atoll located 1.5 miles off the southwest coast of Guam. The brown tree snake was a major contributor to the ...

Eradicating the brown tree snakes that have invaded Cocos Island could set an example for how Guam and the rest of the world could handle invasive species, Diane Vice, Wildlife Supervisor at the ...

The group Friends of Islan Dåno (Cocos Island) Guam launched a GoFundMe page to hunt for brown tree snakes on the tiny island south of Guam. The program originated from Olympia Terral ...

Cocos Island has a unique brown tree snake problem. Methods used on the rest of Guam, such as setting traps, are not working, and the snake population is growing there, agriculture officials said.

Two basketball-sized wave monitoring buoys will soon be deployed off Guam's southwestern coastline, providing real-time ocean ...

which had run aground on the west side of Cocos Island, located about a mile south of Guam. The fishermen had abandoned the 49-foot-long boat and swam ashore the day before because of the high ...

Guam Environmental Protection Agency administrator ... recommended levels were from four species of fish caught around Cocos Island. The NOAA 2015 assessment identified another contaminant not ...

Guam EPA Administrator Walter Leon Guerrero ... The Coast Guard in February this year said DDT may have been used as a pesticide on Cocos Island while the LORAN station was operating from 1944 ...

The Coast Guard has and will continue to work with its federal and state partners, including Guam EPA, NOAA and U.S. EPA to reach the clean up goals around Cocos Island, Evelyn added.

and the other in central Guam. Coral reefs fringe the island, and they are especially visible around Apra Harbor and Cocos Lagoon. The shallow waters where the corals reside are a brilliant blue ...