This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed on Mar 26, 2025.

The recovery of the Fijian economy has continued, with growth estimated at around 3¾ percent in 2024, and expected to moderate to around 3 percent in 2025.

The Pacific region is at the frontline of climate change impacts, with rising sea levels and extreme weather events, posing significant risks to the region’s economies, and communities. Accurate and ...

The French-hosted regional military exercise, "Southern Cross, is this year moving to Wallis and Futuna Islands.

This is the second of a two-part series, written by former PDN staffer and lifelong football fan Paul Addison.

By floating on a raft of downed trees and broken branches, according to a study published Monday in the journal PNAS. The ...

These include the well-known marine iguanas of the Galapagos Islands, but also the chuckwallas of the American Southwest. A ...

Millions of years ago, a band of intrepid iguanas boarded a floating vessel, and reached the remote Pacific island chain.

The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely related to the North American desert iguana, having separated about 34 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific.

The New Zealand ruling elite depicts itself as a benevolent colonial ruler defending the Cook Islands from the alleged ...

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