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The Pew Charitable Trusts today applauded several nations for including ambitious targets to protect and restore coastal wetlands in their updated nationally determined contributions (NDCs). Parties to the Paris Agreement are increasingly recognizing the role that coastal "blue carbon" habit

The Vanuatu government is unhappy with France after French fishing vessels were spotted fishing illegally near Aneityum, and the Matthew and Hunter islands.

The world today is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century. With the increasing common challenges facing the international community, the call for improving global governance is getting louder.

Hopes that enough of the Great Barrier Reef could escape global heating long enough for it to recover have been challenged by research finding less than 2% of its coral reefs have escaped bleaching since 1998.

Te Ipukarea Society’s Bird of the Year Cook Islands competition has a mysterious new entry this year. An extinct bird you may have never heard of, the Kīko’i or Mauke Starling (Aplonis mavornata), writes Te Ipukarea Society.

Environmental groups in French Polynesia say they have lodged a complaint about a Spanish-flagged ship, which they say carried sharks in defiance of a ban on such transport.

One of the largest fisheries surveillance operations in the world, Operation Kurukuru, came to a successful close today following 12 days of international cooperation to target illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing in the Pacific.

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