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

An international team of researchers has used geochemical fingerprinting to reconstruct long-distance voyages between central and western Pacific Islands during the last millennium A.D.

Their own leaders have said that Kiribati—33 coral islands in an expanse of the central Pacific larger than India—is “among the most vulnerable of the vulnerable.” ...

The 10 island states of the Western and Central Pacific—Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, and ...

This coral reef around Vostok Island in the central Pacific went from pristine to mauled by heat to thriving again in five years. The 2015-16 El Niño killed most of the cauliflower corals, but ...

SYDNEY — Fourteen Pacific island nations will receive $107 million to adapt their tuna-dependent economies as climate change pushes the fish farther from their shores, the Green Climate Fund ...

Within the framework of the World Heritage Central Pacific Project, a workshop was held over the previous seven days on Kiritimati (Christmas) Island, Republic of Kiribati to plan for the nomination ...

The United States has solidified the permanence of its military controls over three central Pacific island states and their vast maritime areas. Years-long negotiations over the compacts of free ...

If you dream of escaping to a tiny island in the South Pacific, you may just be in luck. The serene nation of Nauru recently launched a golden passport initiative selling citizenship with an ...

A new “baby” island has been spotted in the Pacific ocean hours after an underwater volcano erupted. NASA Earth Observatory/Cover Ima “No visible ash in the past 24 hours was reported ...