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.

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 ...

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction has established a Pacific Supervolcano Task Force to coordinate international response planning. This includes the development of evacuation ...

This paper investigates the short- and medium-term economic impacts of natural disasters, focusing on Pacific Island Countries (PICs) and using global high-frequency nightlight data in addition to ...

Pacific nations must look to themselves and their neighbors – particularly those in Southeast Asia – to secure the Blue Pacific Continent.

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, surrounded by bountiful exotic fish and colorful corals. Located between Australia and Hawaii, the country is so ...

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

A major earthquake has rattled Tonga, 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 ...

Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed “The soul of our ancestors, when they leave this world, they go into the deep.” ...

Today, the ocean that Kahoʻohalahala and so many other Indigenous peoples crossed, cared for, and survived on, is on track to be mined for polymetallic nodules — potato-sized nodes that contain ...

Discover the hidden gem of the Pacific! 🏝️ Pitcairn Island stands as one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world. Join me on a journey through its breathtaking landscapes and unique ...