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SYDNEY: Pacific island nation Vanuatu has triggered a landmark court ruling that has set out the big polluters’ ...
For centuries people have braved the ocean to bring back yellowfin, skipjack, bigeye and albacore for their families.
A U.S. subsidiary of The Metals Co., based in Vancouver, has applied for permits to mine a deep sea zone in international ...
Operation Nasse is conducted annually by the United States and its other Pacific Quadrilateral Defence Coordination Group partners Australia, France, New Zealand to monitor and respond to illegal ...
The Pacific Islands see themselves not as small island nations but as large ocean states, and they know that their prosperity is tied to that of the ocean. “We are not just seeing it at some ...
The world’s largest climate fund is pledging $107 million to help Pacific island nations adapt to the tuna moving out. It’s the biggest grant for tuna that the Green Climate Fund has ever ...
A tsunami hit coastal areas of Russia’s Kuril Islands and Japan after a powerful, 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the ...
Scientists at Nasa have predicted that the majority of land and critical infrastructure in Tuvalu will sit below the current high tide level by 2050. The tiny Oceanic enclave is just 10 square miles, ...
The South Pacific Ocean is the world's largest marine habitat, containing critical breeding grounds and migratory routes for 11 of the world's great whale species. The Cook Islands, Fiji, French ...
The abandoned 'narco sub' floating in the Pacific has authorities on alert as they try to stop the flood of illegal drugs into the region.
Tsunamis are enormous, potentially destructive sea waves caused primarily by subaquatic earthquakes, volcanic activity, or ...