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Today, NOAA announced it is starting the process to potentially designate a new national marine sanctuary in the Pacific Remote Islands area, as directed by President Biden and affirmed by the Department of Commerce on March 24, 2023.  The proposed area in

Scientists have found thriving communities of coastal creatures, including tiny crabs and anemones, living thousands of miles from their original home on plastic debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a 620,000 square mile swirl of trash in the ocean between California an

The Guardian is an experiential environmental educational initiative that was co-developed by Conservation International and partners, including Samoa's Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture (M.E.S.C.) help improve the environmental literacy of communities, targeting Year 7 primary school s

For millennia, hunting has been a prestigious and traditional activity in many Papua New Guinean cultures.

In the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, straddling the equator, is the picturesque atoll nation of Kiribati. Around 120,000 people, spread across 21 atolls, call the small island state home.

Seabed Minerals Authority senior technical officer Rima Browne has led the creation of a new seabed map – the first of its kind for the Cook Islands.

The Sustainable National Land Use Policy 2021 aimed at developing the regional and national land use plan for PNG is coming on stream with a pilot program on the cusp of being trialed in the Northern Province...A Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) was signed in Popondetta, the Northern Province Capita

Natural disasters can devastate a region, abruptly killing the species that form an ecosystem's structure. But how this transpires can influence recovery. While fires scorch the landscape to the ground, a heatwave leaves an army of wooden staves in its wake.

Last month, Sir David Attenborough called on United Kingdom residents to “go wild once per week”. By this, he meant taking actions which help rather than harm the natural world, such as planting wildflowers for bees and eating more plant-based foods. Australia should follow suit.

A trio of botanists, two from the University of Galway's School of Natural Science and the third from the University of Leeds' School of Geography, has found via testing that most smartphone apps that identify plants are inaccurate.