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Palau's President, Tommy Rememgesau Jr, wants the Senate and House of Delegates to rethink plans to allow a limited season to fish for the threatened Napoleon Wrasse and the Bumphead Parrot Fish.

The Auditor-General has exposed major gaps in the country's water management systems, and is calling for greater national leadership.

Alarmingly, very few large and commercially valuable fish were seen on the reefs in Tonga during a scientific survey conducted by the Global Reef Expedition, which released its online report on 30 January 2020.“Tonga’s coral reef fish communities are dominated by small fish, considered low o

The cost of keeping Samoa clean in terms of contractors going around to collect rubbish from in front of residential homes is $4 million.The figure was revealed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (M.N.R.E.), Ulu Bismarck Crawley, and M.N.R.E.'s Pri

A cleaner Pacific Ocean free from single-use plastics.

Consumers around the world could be wasting more than twice as much food as thought, according to an analysis that says previous estimates have been gross underestimates.The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said in 2011 that around a third of food is lost or

The Kangaroo Island dunnart, the northern corroboree frog and the Blue Mountains water skink are among 113 species that need urgent attention after the bushfire crisis, according to a government analysis.

“Time is running out”, stressed Carolina Schmidt, Chile’s Environment and Climate Minister, in a video address before 2019’s Climate Conference COP25 last December. “There cannot be an effective global response to climate change without a global response on ocean issues,” she added.

More than 16,600 tuna were tagged in a recent scientific tagging expedition in ocean generally north of Papua New Guinea. The voyage targeted skipjack tuna, which makes up 70% of the volume of tuna caught in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO).

Almost three-quarters of researchers are keen to introduce regular meeting-free weeks, a Nature poll has found.