A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Sunday near Tonga, a nation of more than 170 islands in the South Pacific Ocean.

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

The presence of a Chinese research ship comes after Beijing's warships circumnavigated Australia less than a month ago.

While New Delhi shares strategic concerns with the rest of the Quad, its Indo-Pacific approach is primarily a means to ...

Fishing vessels can often work long periods at sea without coming to port, thanks to the practice of transshipment, in which ...

U.S. Congresswoman Amata Radewagen, who represents American Samoa, has urged the Trump administration to reopen most of an ...

The country is home to fewer than 17,000 people ... vessel recently returned from the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean. During the 2021 voyage, soil, water, and wildlife samples ...

Some of the more sparsely populated territories in the world that do little trade with the United States have been caught up ...

President Trump, as part of his expansive package of new tariffs, levied taxes on a number of uninhabited or sparsely ...

Diplomats from more than 30 nations have criticized a proposal that could allow the start of seabed mining by 2027.

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, ...