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UNESCO, in partnership with IUCN Oceania, is currently developing the fourth edition of the Pacific Regional World Heritage Action Plan 2021-2025.

With the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow, the world is focused on the consequences of a climate crisis and how we can still change course.

New research, published in Scientific Reports by Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) postdoctoral fellow Karina Chavarria and colleagues, shows that bacterial communities in streams adjacent to young secondary forests recover to resemble those of mature forest stream

Down to just one breeding pair 40 years ago, the bird bounced back after extraordinary efforts – now its survival is again under threat.

Establishing a “visitor green fee” to protect our environment is one way the Hawaiʻi government could help care for the islands’ precious resources, according to a new blog by the University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization (UHERO)...Fourteen destinations wo

Simon Kofe, Tuvalu’s foreign minister, has filmed a speech to climate summit COP26 knee-deep in the ocean. Kofe aims to highlight the effect of rising sea levels on the small island state in the South Pacific.

More than 100 world leaders meeting at COP26—the UN climate summit in Glasgow—have committed to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030.

Effectively managing marine ecosystems—by preserving biodiversity, protecting ocean-based livelihoods, and ensuring sustainable fisheries—requires a lot of information about threats, and about species location, abundance, and food and habitat needs.

Papua New Guinea has joined 124 other world countries, among them China and United States of America, who signed an agreement to ban logging entirely by 2030 at the Conference of the Parties (UNFCCC COP26) in Glasgow.

The Government on Monday officially launched the national environment week program which would see various thematic areas celebrated. Each day this week has been allotted to the different thematic areas with Monday 1 November 2021 dubbed by the Government as the National “Biodivers