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In October of this year, Palauan and international researchers expanded efforts to map marine biodiversity across the Palau National Marine Sanctuary (PNMS) through cutting-edge environmental DNA, or eDNA, technology aboard the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer.

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Micronesia and Polynesia in collaboration with Palau’s Bureau of Fisheries, Palau International Coral Reef Center (PICRC) and Coral Reef Research Foundation (CRRF) are conducting the country’s largest-ever study on the life history of reef fish.

While the world searches for solutions in carbon credits, experimental energy and piling on pledges, beneath all this noise a quieter truth has always existed.

New Curtin University research has found invasive cane toads are on track to reach Western Australia's Pilbara region within the next 10 to 20 years, threatening to cause widespread losses among native species and significant cultural and economic harm.

Pacific civil society groups say 2025 has been a big year for the ocean.

WWF has expressed extreme disappointment at the tactics used by Japan and its allies at the 56th Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), which led to the failure to create a South Pacific whale sanctuary.

Representatives from across the Pacific gathered this week at the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) for the first-ever Regional Consultation on Environmental Rights, held at the invitation of the Government of Vanuatu.

Thousands of meters below the ocean’s surface, a camera attached to a remotely operated vehicle captured a ghostly white creature gliding above a plain of polymetallic nodules — mineral-rich rocks that resemble blackened potatoes.

The U.S. territory, marooned in the heart of the Pacific, faces a triple threat of climate change, industrial fishing and the rising push for deep-sea mining -- forces that threaten to reshape its future.

The Embassy of Japan is accepting applications for Grant Assistance for Grass-roots Human Security Projects for Japanese Fiscal Year 2026 (1 April 2026～31 March 2027) (e-mail accepted).