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.

A new study tracks down where native iguanas in Fiji and an extinct species from Tonga came from, offering clues about the ...

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

Seventy projects outlined in a confidential PNG cabinet document include acquiring a luxury island in partnership with a Congolese rapper, exploring the potential for a world-class Formula 1 track, ...

Newsweek's weekly update maps the locations of 13 aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region as of March 21.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian prosecutors on Thursday dropped a charge against a Papua New Guinea government ...

The region voted overwhelmingly for independence from Papua New Guinea in 2019, but realizing this in practice has been far ...

The governments of Taiwan and Palau have both been warned that offers of investment from the Cambodian conglomerate Prince Group represent threats to each nation’s security and sovereignty.

At 5:02 a.m., a 4.5 magnitude earthquake struck near the town of Olga on Orcas Island, according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN). The preliminary magnitude was 4.6. Of course ...

For decades, the Marshall Islands and ... initiative by PNA member Papua New Guinea has the "potential to reshape the economic trajectory of our region's fisheries sector." For decades, the 64-dollar ...

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Moana Pasifika winger Solomon Alaimalo on the charge against the Highlanders. Photo / Photosport Fa’alogo Tana Umaga has made four changes to his starting XV for Friday’s match against the ...