Sooty terns fill the skies as they return to Johnston Island, a tiny outcropping within the Pacific west of Hawaii. The atoll is a wildlife refuge and an essential breeding floor for a lot of birds, nevertheless it was used extensively by the US air drive within the twentieth century – as an airbase and a check website for nuclear and organic weapons, and storage for chemical weapons
{Photograph}: Eric Baker/US Fish and Wildlife Service/Reuters
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