May marks Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, which celebrates the histories of Americans hailing from across the Asian continent and from the Pacific islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and ...

Washington Black’ is populated with a number of intriguing characters, many of whom seem to be in search of their own ...

But to the Sea Women of Melanesia, UNEP Champions of the Earth for Inspiration and Action, they are tools of change. Read more. To most people, fins, masks, and wetsuits are recreational gear.

Melanesia means “black islands” in Greek and consists of roughly 2,000 islands in South Pacific Ocean that extends from New Guinea, stretches to New Caledonia and includes the Arafura Sea.

Many people have DNA inside them that they inherited from extinct hominins like the Neanderthals – and now we know that in some cases it isn’t just tiny snippets but long stretches.

For several years, blond hair was attributed to Caucasians but the Melanesians of Solomon Islands are one of the few groups with blonde hair outside Europe. Melanesians are black island people in the ...

A major new report, Reviving Melanesia’s Ocean Economy: The Case for Action, launched today, has revealed that the ocean is a much larger part of Melanesia’s* economy and future prosperity than ...

Melanesia extends from the western Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, and covers Fiji, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. It has thousands of kilometres of ...

Yet 'Melanesia' is much more than a descriptor. The term has been loaded with significance in a variety of ways, carrying with it both negative and positive connotations. This paper provides an ...

THE two volumes of “The History of Melanesian Society,” by Dr. Rivers, represent two methods of the study of mankind, the ethnographical and the ethnological. The first volume is devoted to an ...

"Island Peoples of the Western Pacific, Micronesia and Melanesia" is the title of another volume in the series of War Background Studies published by the Smithsonian Institution. It is compiled by ...