More than 160 years ago, slave ships arrived at Tonga's 'Ata Island. Bishop Silouan Silala Vea's ancestors were invited ...

(Image: Supplied) The people of 'Ata Island were just a fraction of more than 3,600 captured by slave ships bound for Peru in a process known as "blackbirding". Masked as paid labour, Pacific ...

From 1868, the demand for cheap labour on the sugar plantations of northern Queensland had led to the introduction of 62,000 Pacific Islanders ... of islands under a system that became known as ...

There seems to be too much of a radioactive element in rocks deep in the Pacific Ocean – how did it get there 10 million ...

Over the past 60 years, marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz have monitored the behavior of northern elephant seals that ...

Pacific allies don’t usually air their dirty laundry in public. But a rare on-the-record dispute between New Zealand and Kiribati has renewed focus on the poor and isolated island nation ...

SYDNEY, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka will attend a presidential prayer breakfast in Washington on Thursday, the first opportunity for a Pacific Islands leader to press ...

An aquatic adventure in the western Pacific island nation of Palau — home to over 300 islands — highlights the reward of protecting the planet’s marine ecosystems. The Four Seasons Explorer ...

Feb. 4, 2025 The Pacific Palisades — the Los Angeles community where more than 6,800 structures were destroyed and nearly 1,000 were damaged in the California wildfires — is among the ...