By Kristine Sabillo More than half of the tree cover in Pacific atolls is largely composed of “abandoned and overgrown” colonial-era coconut palm plantations, reveal satellite images in a study ...
Recent genetic research has challenged long-standing theories about the collapse of the Rapa Nui civilization on Easter Island ... or cultural links with Indigenous peoples of the Americas ...
As part of the World Bank’s flagship report series Pacific Possible, which focuses on the potential of the Pacific Islands, we spoke to some of ... that we have many countries with strong roots to ...
Excerpted from The Native People of Alaska by Steve J ... stretched from Prince William Sound on the north Pacific Coast to St. Lawrence Island in the central Bering Sea. The Yuit settled this ...
In the summer of 1948, naturalist Charles J. Guiguet spent four months on the Goose Island Archipelago, a cluster of ...
ORCHID ISLAND, Taiwan--While 2020 will be remembered by many as a year of travel bans and cancelled vacations, the indigenous Tao people of Orchid Island will remember it as the year unprecedented ...
The Polynesian islands that span the southern part of the Pacific Ocean ... no genetic evidence of Native American ancestry. In a study published today (July 8) in Nature, researchers analyzed the ...
A mountain in New Zealand is considered to be an ancestor by Indigenous people and has been recognized as a legal person. A new law granted it all the rights and responsibilities of a human being. HPR ...
Australia said on Wednesday it would enlist indigenous Aboriginal rangers to patrol its vast and remote northern coastline amid an influx of illegal fishing boats that have also been used by people ...
It was the time called itingaaro, the dawn twilight, when the island was ... “land” and “people” is the same. If your land disappears, who are you? Yet, conversely, Pacific people are ...
Researchers say that the unearthing weaves Indigenous Australians into the ocean-faring network of people in Papua New Guinea, the Torres Strait and Pacific Islands. Distinguished professor at ...
An infrastructure project aims to turn the home to remote Indigenous tribes into a Hong Kong-like industrial port city that could see the local population increase by 8,000 per cent. Activists ...