News

Despite its tiny land mass, the Cook Islands is responsible for a huge swathe of ocean and is home to many unique – and uniquely threatened – species of flora and fauna...With its extensive rainforests and coral reefs, the archipelago has been hailed for centuries as one of the most idyllic place

A new scientific report suggests that the radioactive element strontium 90 is a more significant contamination factor in the northern Marshall Islands than has been acknowledged to date by the US Department of Energy. The new study, published in the Journal of Radiation Research and Applied

Global efforts to cut plastic and agricultural pollution, protect a third of wild spaces, and ultimately live "in harmony with nature" will dominate UN biodiversity negotiations starting Monday, held in person after a two-year pandemic delay.

The GEF is the only multilateral fund dedicated to biodiversity conservation and is one of the largest and most trusted sources of financing for environmental initiatives in developing countries...To date, the GEF has set up and sustained protected areas on the land larger than the size of Brazil

Whether it’s mimicking venomous creatures, or shooting jets of water at aquarium light switches to turn them off, octopuses are nothing if not resourceful.

New research, co-authored by oceanographers at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, warns there are too many unknowns for deep-sea mining.

The outrigger canoes of the western Pacific islands of Yap are famous for their speed, performance and seaworthiness...The islanders, renowned all over the world as master mariners, still rely on these traditional hand-carved wooden canoes for fishing and sailing from island to island in the vast

Earlier this month, the Intergovernmental Report on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II (WGII) released a report that consisted of the impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. This report has shown that with all these climate crises, women are at the very forefront of climate change and it

Villagers of Nabavatu in Dreketi, Macuata have expressed their interest in participating in carbon trading. Dreketi District Representative, Eseroma Lava says they have had talks with the Ministry of Forestry and REDD+ as they want to be able to conserve and sustainably manage their forest.

New Guinea is home to 12 of 14 species of the elusive, charismatic tree kangaroo. Conservationists in Papua New Guinea have been fighting for decades to establish protected areas using these species as a flagship species for these conservation efforts.