Southwest of Tongatapu, the main island of the Tongan archipelago, lies the depopulated island of 'Ata in the South Pacific Ocean. In June 1965, a group of six Tongan youths became stranded on the ...

Over 80 people gathered Sunday at Ala Moana Beach Park for a paddle-out ceremony opposing deep-sea mining, joining a global ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The contributions and sacrifices by a group of Native Hawaiians to claim a remote group of islands in the Pacific Ocean prior to World War II is receiving national ...

A team of scientists discovered a Japanese naval destroyer for the first time since it was sunk by American troops in World ...

A UCL-led group of world-leading scientists is joining Pacific sailors on a voyage like no other – to understand how ...

The ancestors of Fiji’s iguanas, such as the Fijian crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis, shown here), may have arrived in the islands by floating across the Pacific Ocean on vegetation over ...

The Solomon Islands and Vanuatu are seen as being the closest to Beijing.

The Pacific Islands are being hit harder than most, suffering a “triple whammy” of ocean heating, sea level rise and acidification, which is harming ecosystems, damaging crops, contaminating ...

What started as a Stanford migration study of Loggerhead Sea Turtles has now uncovered new effects global warming has on the Pacific Ocean.

Anemonefishes are a group of damselfishes “that exclusively live symbiotically with sea anemones,” researchers said in a July 10 study published in the peer-reviewed journal ZooKeys. They are ...

Japan said it observed two Chinese aircraft carriers and supporting warships operating simultaneously near remote Japanese islands in the Pacific Ocean for the first time, a new demonstration of ...