There is a back-to-the-future atmosphere in the Pacific at present. Across the region, nations and territories are reckoning with history and its legacies as they try to forge a path forward in very ...

South Pacific island has mistakenly appeared in publications for past century. Nov. 23, 2012— -- Sandy Island was nowhere to be found when Australian scientists reached the South Pacific location ...

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month so today we look at the Pacific Islands and the American territories there. One hundred years before Hawaii became a territory annexed by the ...

SYDNEY, Oct 31 (Reuters) - The Pacific Islands is the world's most aid-reliant region, with geopolitical competition for influence between donor nations fuelling record levels of development ...

Australia’s dominance as the largest donor to Pacific Island countries is set to grow as the Pacific faces deepening aid cuts by other Western partners, including the United States, New Zealand and ...

A new report unpacks how Pacific islands’ experiences could provide a touchstone for pressing adaptation talks at COP30.

In 2021, the Pacific Islands saw dramatic change with the threatened exit of Micronesian states from the Pacific Islands Forum and the fall of the region’s longest serving political leader, former ...

SYDNEY, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Leaders of several Pacific Islands have endorsed an Australian-funded A$400 million ($271 million) plan to improve police training and create a mobile regional policing unit ...

Pacific Island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Fiji will experience at least 8 inches of sea-level rise over the next 30 years, a new analysis by NASA's sea-level change science team shows. This ...

While huge swaths of the Pacific Islands are suffering from a crippling drought, the region has received a veritable deluge of attention from the U.S. government over the past weeks. This attention is ...