The National Party-led government’s plan to lift defence spending from 1 to 2 percent of GDP, as it prepares to join US-led ...

West Philippine Sea is the name given by an administrative order (AO) of then President Benigno Aquino III to Philippine territorial waters west of the country. Aquino’s AO said West Philippine Sea ...

China embeds its military ambitions within Pacific Island nations by developing dual-use infrastructure such as ports, ...

China has quietly extended its military reach far across the Pacific by building dozens of ports, airports, and communications projects at key points in a vast region that could shut out the United ...

A new database compiling over 400 sightings of a mysterious ocean phenomenon known as ‘milky seas’ could help scientists soon predict when the odd ocean glows occur.

New research has highlighted more than 43% of Queensland, Australia's current productive aquaculture sites are expected to be impacted by sea level rise. Of the projected inundation caused by sea ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth made his first visit to several countries in the Indo-Pacific region since taking ...

The largest species of flightless insect, the Lord Howe Island stick insect, grows up to 15cm (5.9 inches) long.

The Prague Zoo has joined an international effort to ensure the survival of a rare insect that had been considered extinct ...

A Tasmanian adventurer and his Kiwi mate have made history by crossing the Tasman Sea in just 22 days. Luke Richmond and ...