Foreign ministers from 10 Pacific Island nations visited the coastal Chinese city of Xiamen and toured Haixun 06, which can travel 18,500km or 60 days without resupply. Papua New Guinea (PNG ...

A deep-sea training and engineering dive off the coast of San Diego provided an opportunity for never-before-seen imagery of the U.S. Navy submarine USS F-1, lost at sea in an accident on December ...

Deep beneath the tranquil surface of the Pacific Ocean, Earth’s geological forces are at work ... Particularly vulnerable would be low-lying island nations in the Pacific, which could face near-total ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation This paper investigates the short- and medium-term economic impacts of natural disasters, focusing on Pacific Island ...

It is often said that the first settlers of the Pacific journeyed eastward from Southeast Asia, establishing enduring ties of kinship, knowledge, and stewardship across the ocean. Thousands of ...

The democratic island nation of just 17,000 people hosts American-controlled airstrips and soon-to-be-completed radar installations that the U.S. military describes as “critical” to monitoring ...

The Pacific paradise of Tuvalu is one of the most remote nations in the world ... in front of one of the ATMs on the country’s main island of Funafuti, Prime Minister Feleti Teo hailed the ...

This striking satellite image reveals a giant, near-perfect cloud circle that formed in the heart of the Pacific Ocean more than ... thanks to images from NASA's Television Infrared Observation ...

an archipelago nation in the South Pacific Ocean that comprises some 170 islands. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated the 7.0 magnitude quake struck roughly 60 miles northeast of the main island ...

Polymetallic sea nodules collected from a deep-sea mining expedition in the Indian Ocean. Pallava Bagla / Corbis via Getty Images Fifty ... Many Pacific island nations achieved their current ...

(Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images via Grist) Other Pacific peoples have similar creation stories, and the sacredness of the ocean isn ... Many Pacific island nations achieved ...

Discover the hidden gem of the Pacific! 🏝️ Pitcairn Island stands as one of the most ... Five potential captaincy candidates after the Six Nations as new ‘man in waiting’ emerges Value ...