MIDWAY ISLAND, United States (APP) - President Barack Obama went off the beaten track Thursday -- way off -- to a newly expanded marine reserve on an atoll in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, part of an effort to polish his environmental legacy.Obama flew three hours west of his native Honolulu to ...

MIAMI: (APP) President Barack Obama on Friday burnished his environmental legacy by establishing the world's largest marine reserve, home to thousands of rare sea creatures in the northwestern Hawaiian islands.Obama's announcement more than quadrupled the size of the existing protected area, known ...