Fiji has been announced as the host for the 2026 Miss Pacific Islands Pageant, although Fiji did not participate in the 2025 competition, and in past recent years. The decision was revealed at the ...

The scenic spot boasts a 4.8 star rating on Google Maps, with over 33,000 reviews. The viewing tower gives tourists a chance to take in breath-taking views of the Aran Islands and surrounding scenery.

UNEP is dedicated to supporting the Pacific Island Countries in their efforts to address plastic pollution. With funding from the Government of Japan, UNEP has initiated the project “Strengthening ...

The chain of Indian Ocean islands are claimed by Mauritius but are actually more than 2,000km away from the African nation. Chagos has seven atolls and around 60 islands; of these, Diego Garcia is ...

A new area equivalent in size to Sweden has been mapped in the Arctic Ocean, contributing to the project’s aim to map global seafloor by 2030 By 2030, a collaborative project aims to have entirely ...

The Monthly climate summary, usually published in the first week of the following month, lists the main features of the weather in Remote Islands and Antarctica using the most timely and accurate ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A boy scavenges for saleable items at Red Beach dump, on Tarawa atoll, Kiribati, March 30, 2004. (AP Photo ...

FILE - A boy scavenges for saleable items at Red Beach dump, on Tarawa atoll, Kiribati, March 30, 2004. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File) ...

"However, its recent path shows that it is in an ocean current jet – something like an atmospheric jet stream – that should take it toward the island over the coming weeks. " The iceberg ...

Even Pacific island leaders can’t be indifferent to the result of the US presidential elections. With a combined sense of optimism and uncertainty, they sent their courtesy congratulations to Trump ...

Iceberg A23a (bottom left) and South Georgia Island (top right) as seen by Aqua's MODIS image on January 15, 2025. Credit: NASA. Most people picture icebergs like big floating boulders in the ocean.