Tuvalu climate minister says approval of North West Shelf Extension would threaten his country’s survival and “violate the spirit of the Pacific-Australia climate partnership.” ...

Australia on Wednesday approved a 40-year extension to a major liquified gas plant, brushing off protests from Pacific island ...

Two tiny, remote Antarctic outposts populated by penguins and seals are among the obscure places targeted by the Trump administration's new tariffs. Heard and McDonald Islands - a territory which ...

The islands are accessible only via a two-week boat voyage from Perth on Australia's west coast, per the Australian Antarctic Program. And, according to U.K. newspaper The Guardian, they have not ...

Nearly seven decades since the US government ended nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands, a new study has revealed the ...

But the apparent snub comes at a time when the West's grip on the Pacific ... but as many as 100,000 live in New Zealand and Australia. Culturally, Cook Islands Māori - who make up the majority ...

Heard and McDonald islands, which sit 4000 kilometres south-west of Perth and are home to Australia’s only active volcanoes, are uninhabited apart from an occasional visit by scientists to check ...

Heard and McDonald Islands - a territory which sits 4,000km (2,485 miles) south-west of Australia - are only accessible via a seven-day boat trip from Perth, and haven't been visited by humans in ...