Eighty-eight years ago this month, Amelia Earhart attempted to become the first woman to fly around the world when she vanished over the Pacific Ocean. Soon, a team of researchers will be launching an ...

President Donald Trump’s order to re-open distant, protected Pacific waters to U.S. fishing fleets followed years of dire warnings by the region’s commercial seafood interests.

The US Navy has deployed the USS Michael Monsoor (DDG-1001), one of its three Zumwalt-class stealth destroyers, to Japan in a clear strategic signal to China. -The deployment comes as the troubled ...

The U.S. Pacific Air Forces previously told Newsweek that its spy aircraft were conducting "planned, routine operations" in ...

This year’s top islands, as voted in our “World’s Best Awards” survey for 2025, span 18 countries, from the Mediterranean to ...

Groundbreaking research undertaken by Uppsala University and published in the journal Antiquity (via Ancient Origins) has rewritten previously held beliefs about the remote society of Rapa Nui, also ...

Japan’s army has begun relocating its fleet of V-22 Osprey aircraft to a new base on the southern island of Kyushu, part of ...

A new study suggests that the island of Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island, didn’t develop in the extreme manner of ...

Trump’s dismantling of the aid agency has jeopardized U.S. commitments to the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau.

Johnston Atoll, an unincorporated US territory and Pacific island wildlife refuge with a complicated military history, is no ...

A Canada-based website’s listing of Indonesian islands for sale has reignited fears of privatization, long linked to ...

Island in the southern Pacific is one of the most geographically isolated places on Earth, but socially and culturally its ...