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An international report says the world has failed to meet any of its 2020 biodiversity targets for birds. The Aichi targets were set in 2010 at a meeting of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Japan.

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China is in the news again, and once again over controversial reasons.

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that the endocrine-disrupting pesticide atrazine will be banned in Hawai‘i and in the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S.

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The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP) via its Pacific Ecosystem-based Adaptation to Climate Change Project (PEBACC) handed over the reins for climate change adaptation activities in Port Vila and peri-urban Port Vila to the Government on the 28th of September 20

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A new report has highlighted the state's coastal waters are at risk due to the lack of an integrated management system.

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The tagging of over 6,000 tuna in the central Pacific over the past seven weeks is being hailed for the data it will provide to ensure accurate assessments of stocks in the region.

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Millions of years ago, fire swept across the planet, fueled by an oxygen-rich atmosphere in which even wet forests burned, according to new research by CU Boulder scientists.

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We believe that countries must take into account lessons from the failure to meet the Aichi targets; the greatest being failure to allocate resources to stop degradation of ecosystems and fight climate change.

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Countries are being urged to commit hundreds of billions of pounds in funding to protect nature in a global campaign backed by Sir David Attenborough.

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A plan to combine the Pilbara inshore islands into one nature reserve has opened for public comment.

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