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Fiji, Tonga and Nauru have launched a multi-country workshop aimed at improving biodiversity management. The focus is on sustainable development and ocean protection.

Papua New Guinea will "immediately" lift a ban on forest carbon credit schemes, the Pacific nation's climate minister told AFP on Thursday, opening up its vast wilderness to offset global emissions.

Last week, renowned oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle and Polynesian Voyaging Society CEO Nainoa Thompson joined global leaders in Paris for “SOS Ocean,” a high-level gathering held March 30-31 at the Musée National de la Marine.

With less than 90 days until the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), the largest global gathering ever dedicated to the ocean, nations across the Western Pacific committed to fostering cooperation in ocean science, strengthening the science-policy interface, and advancing sustainable r

The Palau International Coral Reef Center (PICRC) has reinforced its commitment to protecting Palau’s marine resources by signing Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with Ngaraard State Government on March 7, 2025, and with Ngarchelong State Government on March 25, 2025, respectively.

 A newly published study for the Central Province in the Solomon Islands highlights how healthy ecosystems are critical to the long-term resilience and prosperity of any local community, and even more so when building community resilience to climate change.

Australo-Papuan snakes of the genus Dendrelaphis have historically been a taxonomically confusing group, with 28 nomina applied to snakes in this region.

Biologists from The University of Texas at Arlington are the first to discover an invasive frog—the greenhouse frog—in the Marshall Islands, a sprawling Pacific nation of volcanic islands and coral atolls located roughly halfway between Hawaii and Australia.

Yasawa Island is now a leading place for saving ocean life as local people are doing a lot to protect their healthy coral and sea creatures.

When we give a name to a country, a bioregion, or a geographic feature, we tend to imagine it as a ‘place’ in and of itself. But the truth is that where such places begin and end is a cultural decision, varies depending on who’s using it, and is almost always up for debate.