09/11/2020
Paradise Regained: How the Palmyra Atoll Got Rid of Invasive Mosquitoes
One thousand miles south of Hawaii, the Palmyra Atoll, a horseshoe-shaped chain of islets, is about as isolated as you can imagine, says Erin Mordecai, a biologist at Stanford University who has visited the islets to conduct ecology research. “It’s really, really remote and has never had a nativ...