A 2022 satellite photo shows smoke rising from a caldera on Tofua, highlighting the "looming threat" of the volcanic island.

The inaugural programme in March 2023 saw 10 trailblazing women from Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, and the Cook Islands come together ...

Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride ...

There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central ...

The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely ...

Tonga is divided into three main groups which include Tongatapu, Vavaʻu and Haʻapai with its largest island being found at Tongatapu, which is also home to the capital city of Nukuʻalofa.

Overwater dispersal is the main way newly formed islands get populated by plants and animals ... flotsam through the doldrums ...

The trek—from the North American desert to Fiji—now represents the longest known migration of any terrestrial animal.

Fiji’s iguanas embarked on one of the most astonishing ocean journeys in history, rafting nearly 5,000 miles from North ...

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.