“We can’t be passive”: New Zealand’s changing tone about a more worrying world
By David Capie
A new foreign policy assessment sees the Pacific as no longer “strategically benign” – but the concern extends well beyond the...
WWF-Pacific unveils revitalised Strategic Plan to tackle pressing challenges in the Pacific
The office of the World Wide Fund for Nature in the Pacific (WWF-Pacific) is proud to announce the launch of its revitalised 2025 Strategic...
Spot the hypocrisy: Europe and the West throws Pacific high ambition under the bus...
Opinion by Dr Peter Nuttall
Getting serious push-back to the Pacific's high ambition from China, Brazil and their buddies was fully expected this week...
Adapting coastal communities in the Pacific to sea level rise
Sea-level rise represents one of the most compelling consequences of climate change, as well as one of the most critical issues for Pacific Island...
The biggest gold rush in history is about to start in the deep sea...
Applications to mine the seabed in our ocean commons can be made from 09 July, allowing a few corporations to profit from ecological disaster...
How Washington teamed up with PNG to pip Canberra for ‘control’ of region
COMMENTARY: A special correspondent in Port Moresby
As an officer of the Department of Foreign Affairs in the Papua New Guinea government, I have...
Fukushima: Anxiety and anger over Japan’s nuclear waste water plan
By Tessa Wong, Asia Digital Reporter, BBC News
A controversial plan by Japan to release treated waste water from the Fukushima nuclear plant has sparked...
Pacific treaties must be built with care and nurtured once they’re in place
By Lucy Albiston and Blake Johnson
Security agreements are an increasingly hot topic in the Pacific as Australia, the U.S, China and New Zealand...
You can’t mine the seabed without proper rules
Mining the seabed without proper regulations seems outlandish. But it could happen sooner than we think.
10 July, 2023 is shaping as D-Day for the...
Treaty to Protect High Seas too late to stop mining
By Mohd Hazmi Mohd Rusli, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia
When the International Seabed Authority begins accepting applications for deep sea mining operations in the...
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