Helping Pacific fishers adapt to a changing ocean
A UNSW-led partnership is using ocean temperature sensors to help Pacific fishers navigate changing tuna behaviour, while providing vital data for fisheries management and...
Fifth SPREP Executive Board Meeting advances journey to build a resilient Pacific environment
The journey to build a resilient Pacific environment to sustain our livelihoods and natural heritage in harmony with our Pacific cultures for the Secretariat...
Who controls the Pacific’s communications?
By Sue Ahearn
The Pacific has a communications problem that extends well beyond social media.
The region covers almost one-third of the Earth’s surface, with small...
‘Teeming with life’: Cook Islands officials enthuse over NOAA deep dive
By Tiana Haxton, RNZ Pacific journalist/presenter
A 26-day deep sea expedition in the Cook Islands by a United States scientific agency has uncovered new information...
While Australia avoids the ‘C’ word, NZ is unafraid to speak up
By Peter Hartcher, Political and international editor
New Zealand’s spy agency has dared utter in its formal annual threat report the word that Australia’s does...
Creating pathways for Pacific climate solutions
Despite the capacity and resource constraints Pacific Small Island Developing States face in accessing global climate finance, communities across the region are already developing...
Inside Australia’s $150m gamble on the Pacific climate summit
The government says its plan to host a climate summit in Fiji will direct global eyes on the Pacific’s fight against rising seas. But...
When the Pacific way is silence: Tuvalu, consensus and courage
By Niuone Eliuta
A nuclear-capable Chinese ballistic missile, launched from a nuclear-powered submarine in July 2026, arced over several Pacific nations and landed without warning...
History for Wallis-et-Futuna as Chair of the Fifth SPREP Executive Board Meeting
For the first time in its history, Wallis-et-Futuna is chairing the Fifth Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Executive Board Meeting (EBM).
Wallis-et-Futuna...
SPREP fifth Executive Board Meeting underway in Samoa
The collective collaborative effort to cushion Pacific communities against the impacts of the triple planetary crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution continues...
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Deep-Sea Mining could begin in Pacific without agreed global rules
Commercial deep-sea mining for critical minerals could begin in the Pacific as early as 2027, despite the absence of an internationally agreed regulatory framework,...
Naoero toughens laws on domestic violence and attacks on police
Naoero has strengthened its laws on domestic violence and offences against police officers, with new measures aimed at protecting victims, preventing intimidation and giving...
Trump administration moves to increase H-1B visa fee to more than $100,000
U.S President Donald Trump's administration on Monday released a proposed regulation to codify an unprecedented fee of more than US$100,000 on new H-1B visas...