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Mango flowers and hornets’ nests might seem strange bedfellows for meteorological satellites, but on Futuna Island, a craggy volcano at the eastern edge of the archipelago of Vanuatu, they play a critical role in helping local people predict extreme weather.

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Rats on the Cook Islands Palmerston Atoll could be gone for good by years end, making a massive difference to the islands community and biodiversity. At the request of the community, a full-scale rat eradication will take place mid-2023.

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The Marshall Islands is making use of a "maritime domain awareness platform" developed by a New Zealand company to identify suspected illegal fishing activity in the western Pacific. Information gleaned by Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority (MIMRA) fisheries surveillance officers vi

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A study has found that infrastructure worldwide is widespread in sites that have been identified as internationally important for biodiversity, and its prevalence is likely to increase.

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Prime Minister Mark Brown has issued new warrants to eight representatives for the Marae Moana Technical Advisory Group.

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When conservation scientist Junior Novera was growing up in Mapisi Village, on a bend of the Sinamut River in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, he’d never heard the term conservation.

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First Nations in the Great Bear Rainforest and Haida Gwaii of Canada, have successfully invested in conservation initiatives that have benefited ecosystems while also increasing communities’ well-being over the past 15 years, a recent report shows.

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A team of researchers from the German Center of Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) has now found that species that evolved to more extreme body sizes compared to their mainland relatives have a higher risk of extinction than thos

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The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation released its latest Status of the Stocks Report, finding a higher percentage of the global tuna catch comes from stocks with a healthy level of abundance than in

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Landscapes are showing signs of losing their ability to absorb the amount of carbon they once could, a new study revealed. That would pose serious obstacles to the fight against climate change.

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