Posted on Jun 30, 2025 in News For Immediate Release: June 30, 2025 HONOLULU—According to preliminary statistics from the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT), total visitor arrivals and total visitor spending in May...
E. William Podojil's thriller dives into the collision of technology, ambition, and ethics in a vivid story of global power set in the South Pacific Islands. CLEVELAND, OH, UNITED STATES, April 28, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Set against the...
Posted on May 29, 2025 in News For Immediate Release: May 29, 2025 HONOLULU—According to preliminary statistics from the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT), total visitor arrivals and total visitor spending in April...
Posted on Apr 30, 2025 in News For Immediate Release: April 30, 2025 HONOLULU—According to preliminary statistics from the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT), total visitor arrivals and total visitor spending in March...
[PRESS RELEASE – APIA, 17 April 2025] – The Ministry of Health is officially declaring a dengue fever outbreak in Samoa. There has been a significant increase in the number of suspected and confirmed cases, particularly in Upolu, over the past two...
Posted on Mar 27, 2025 in News For Immediate Release: March 27, 2025 HONOLULU—According to preliminary statistics from the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT), there were 240,525 total visitors in Hawaii on any given...
Posted on Feb 27, 2025 in News For Immediate Release: February 27, 2025 HONOLULU—According to preliminary statistics from the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT), there were 792,177 visitors to the Hawaiian Islands in...
30 September 2024, Ua Pou, French Polynesia: - Following eradication efforts implemented in 2023, a monitoring mission has confirmed that the three islets of Ua Pou, in French Polynesia, are now rat-free. This achievement will provide a safe haven...
Carlsbad, Sept. 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Technology developed by Hong Kong-based Fukui Shell Nucleus Factory creates opportunities for tracing cultured pearls through the supply chain. GIA (Gemological Institute of America) reports for...
(TUESDAY 4 FEBRUARY 2025) His Excellency Mr Guillaume Lemoine presented his Letter of Credence to the Head of State of Samoa, Afioga Tuimalealiifano Vaaletoa Sualauvi II at a presentation of credential ceremony held this morning at the Head of...
A diver surveys a coral reef on Nov, 27, 2017 near the Comoros archipelago, Indian Ocean. Credit - Alexis Rosenfeld—Getty Images When the world’s first marine reserves were established in the 1920s, Jacques Cousteau was an adolescent. The deepest...
Alex Fogg, Shane Reynolds and Kinga Philipps document a tiger shark beneath Island Pier between Fort Walton Beach and Destin, Florida. Shane Reynolds The Island Pier juts 1,262 feet out from the sugary, white sands of Florida’s Okaloosa Island,...
Koror, Palau-It’s been two weeks since the curtains fell on the third UN Ocean Conference. At this largest ever ocean summit, the Pacific voice echoed as a collective, calling for more global ocean accountability, and offering transformational...
Bora Bora, one of French Polynesia’s Society Islands, will be included in the new MPA (Photo: Shutterstock) By DIVE Staff The government of French Polynesia has announced the creation of a marine protected area (MPA) that will extend around the...
Cam McGurk's stories of one of Australia's most heavily irradiated areas come drenched in warm Pilbara sunshine. "I actually spent my honeymoon at the Montebello Islands," Mr McGurk, a longtime member of the Ashburton Anglers fishing club, said....
A new French parliamentary report urges Paris to apologize for its decades of nuclear tests in French Polynesia. "The investigation reinforced the conviction of the parliamentary commission of inquiry that France must issue an apology to French...
When the world’s first marine reserves were established in the 1920s, Jacques Cousteau was an adolescent. The deepest we could dive was about 500 ft. Humans were beginning to imagine what could be beneath the surface, what discoveries lay waiting,...
A school of fish swim over a coral reef in the Gambier Islands of French Polynesia on Feb. 17, 2018. Alexis Rosenfeld / Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform...
French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson on Monday announced that his country is on track to create the world's largest marine protected area (MPA). The ambitious objective, spanning nearly 23 percent of the archipelago's waters, came on the...
The government will create an artisanal fishing zone – collectively covering 186,000 square kilometres – that extends 15 nautical miles from the Austral, Marquesas, and Gambier islands and 30 nautical miles around the Society Islands. The...
