Small Island Developing States are first recognized as a distinct group of countries at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. One hundred and seventy nine nations ...

Washington is bolstering its military presence at Diego Garcia amid rising tensions with Iran and ongoing strikes on Yemen's ...

The tropical Indian Ocean is home to the Spice Islands. Characterised by beautiful ... to fame is that the males become pregnant. They are small (16.4 cm is the largest recorded in these waters ...

The British Indian ... Nations General Assembly and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. In 2024, the UK government under Prime Minister Kier Starmer announced it would return the ...

Micronesia wrote in a 2020 letter to the United Nations that it ”intends to maintain these maritime zones ... notwithstanding climate change-induced sea level rise“. Pacific small island ...

There are currently 39 small island developing States in three geographic regions: the Caribbean; the Pacific; and Africa, Indian Ocean and South China Sea. These small islands have a combined ...