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A huge floating device designed by Dutch scientists to clean up an island of rubbish in the Pacific Ocean that is three times the size of France has successfully picked up plastic from the high seas for the first time.

Preserving and strengthening the Pacific's booming coconut industry has been discussed in Samoa at the annual Pacific Week of Agriculture.

The Palau International Coral Reef Center (PICRC) on Tuesday, August 13, 2019, was awarded with a 326,000 USD grant from Oceans 5 - a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA)- to support Phase 2 of the project titled The First Nationwide Marine Sanctuary in Palau...A

Aquaman star Jason Momoa, who spoke at the United Nations on behalf of Hawaii and other island nations on climate change was invited to the Our Ocean Conference in Palau next year...Momoa joined the Pacific Island leaders at the UN General Assembly...Palau will host Our Oceans Conference in 2020.

A four-day discussion on ocean issues began today at the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat.

As a scientist who uses poetry in my research, I feel that these two disciplines are complementary, and we should embrace poetry as a tool for communicating our research and developing new understandings of our fields.

A decades-long ecological experiment in South Carolina has shown the power of a straightforward way to improve wildlife habitats: connect them.

The effective management of marine protected areas (MPA) in coastal communities across the Philippines would help achieve sustainable fishing that could ensure the livelihood of small fisherfolk, as well as food security, an expert said.

They are some of the smallest animals on our planet, measuring from 1cm to 2cm in length. But the recent return of thousands of tiny tropical tree snails to French Polynesia represents one of the biggest reintroduction programmes ever attempted by conservationists.

When you're the first person ever to visit the deepest part of the ocean all alone, it's safe to say you have a unique perspective on things. Movie director James Cameron has this claim to fame – along with creating Titanic and Avatar, also noteworthy accomplishments!