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A landmark multinational agreement protecting Antarctica’s Ross Sea offers valuable lessons for similar global conservation pacts in the future, according to a new analysis coauthored by a CU Boulder researcher.

The President of Palau says the United Nations Climate Summit in New York shows there is momentum building in the fight against climate change.Tommy Remengesau co-hosted an event at UN headquarters this week, focused on protecting the oceans and combating climate change.

Pacific Islanders are among a group of children petitioning the UN Committee on the rights of the Child about the lack of government action on the climate crisis.

Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama has announced a plan to plant about 30 million trees in response to the climate crisis. Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama has announced a plan to plant about 30 million trees in response to the climate crisis.

As the Cook Islands Government continues with its plans for seabed mining it has controversially dumped the person most closely associated with its famed Marae Moana. Jacqui Evans was dumped as a director of the huge marine reserve, something she was instrumental in establishing.

Titled understanding human well being benefits and values of the Palau National Marine Sanctuary, the project aims to understand the impact that nature conservation has on human well being.

Orca have been filmed off Samoa in what might be the first sighting ever caught on tape in that country.

A new resource for short, quick pops of information has been developed by the Inform Project to help those working in the Pacific enhance their speeches, media interviews, soundbites, presentations and general message-sharing on Pacific islands environmental data.

What are nature and culture on a planet we have exhaustively mapped and immeasurably changed? How are we ourselves altered in that process? In Surfacing, the poet and writer Kathleen Jamie explores this liminal space.

This is the second in a four-part series on Moana Marae, the massive, recently enacted multiple-use marine protected area covering the Cook Islands’ entire exclusive economic zone...Spanning almost 2 million square kilometers (772,000 square miles) — an area roughly the size of Mexico — the MPA i