WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Air Force has suspended plans it had proposed with Elon Musk's SpaceX to test hypersonic ...

Amelia Earhart disappeared on July 2, 1937, over the Pacific Ocean en route to Howland Island from Lae, New Guinea, in one of the most enduring mysteries in aviation history ...

Washington became concerned about China's ambition to gain a military foothold in the Pacific Islands in 2018 when Beijing ...

Just over 3,000 tourists visited the island in 2023, according to government data. It has one airport, on Funafuti, that services just a handful of flights each week from Pacific neighbor Fiji.

SYDNEY — Fourteen Pacific island nations will receive $107 million to adapt their tuna-dependent economies as climate change pushes the fish farther from their shores, the Green Climate Fund ...

President Biden at the U.S.-Pacific Islands Forum Summit leaders group photo at the White House on Sept. 25. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post) As Congress continues to struggle to pass ...

David Campese is the latest to take aim at the number of Southern Hemisphere players in the British and Irish Lions squad.

New Zealand has abruptly halted nearly $NZ20 million ($US11 million) in funding to the Cook Islands in retaliation for a ...

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The UN Climate Change Conference, COP29, held in Baku, Azerbaijan from November 11-22, took place as 2024 heads towards the hottest year in human history. Temperatures are expected to be 1.5 ºC ...

The Pacific Islands Region: While Pacific Island countries occupy a land mass of only 300,000 square miles, their total exclusive economic zone spans 7.7 million square miles of ocean.

Palau, a country comprising some 340 islands in the Pacific Ocean, is running a trial of a stablecoin linked to the U.S. dollar, Jay Hunter Anson, a member of the board of directors at the ...