Coronavirus: conservationists shocked by return from secluded island to world in Covid-19 pandemic

Four volunteers who went to do environmental work on a remote Hawaiian atoll nearly nine months ago are now coping with a new normal after returning to a world struggling to bring the Covid-19 pandemic under control. In February 2020, they sailed to the Kure Atoll on the northern edge of an uninhabited part of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. With information from the outside world only coming in through occasional emails and satellite text messages, they were unprepared for what they would…