Antarctic diplomacy in plain English: The MAGA edition

The Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) is where 29 world powers should unite every year to defend what many call Earth’s last great wilderness. But the new report from ATCM 2025, staged in scorching Milan from 23 June to 3 July, spans...

UMaine Marine Scientist Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Bob Steneck delivers an acceptance speech after recieving an award from the National Academy of Sciences in 2024. (Courtesy photo) Bob Steneck, who helped reshape marine research in Maine during his 41-year career at the University of Maine, was...

Pacific Islands News Roundup – September 19 – 25, 2025

Editor’s Note: We are undergoing a web host migration process and may need to make necessary modifications to our format and frequency over the next several weeks. Thank you in advance for your understanding. Political Leadership and Regionalism,...

Super-habitats could hold key to shark conservation

In the heart of French Polynesia, a narrow channel carves its way through the Fakarava Atoll, connecting a vast lagoon to the open ocean. To the casual eye, it’s a beautiful stretch of turquoise water. To a thriving community of grey reef sharks,...

The year of luxury – your guide to luxury cruise for the new 2025/26 season

Australia is seeing more luxury ships coming to our shores than ever before. Luxury cruising can offer more value than you think, due to the inclusions. Here’s a rundown on luxury cruises in Australia and some suggested deals worth exploring....

Pearl Culture: A remarkable achievement of Cotton University

Silpi Sikha Borah (The writer is a doctoral scholar and an ex-Cottonian from the Department of Zoology.) The Zoology Department of Cotton University, under the leadership of Dr Akalesh Kumar Verma, has been actively engaged in harvesting pearls...

Kazakh Activists Shine a Light on Nuclear Fallout

Kazakhstan is surrounded by nuclear neighbors — Russia to the north and west, China to the east, and India and Pakistan to the south. Until 1995, when it completed a year’s long multi-nation effort to disassemble and remove the Soviet nuclear...

SCIENCE AND PARTNERSHIPS FOR GEOHAZARD RESILIENCE IN THE PACIFIC REGION TOWARDS A MULTI-HAZARD EARLY WARNING SYSTEM – 24th -28th February 2025.

OPENING REMARKS by Dr Shamila Nair-Bedouelle, Director UNESCO Pacific Regional Office. Dear Honorable Minister T. C. Schuster, Samoa Minister of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) Dear Diplomatic Corps, High Commissioners, Ambassadors, Heads...

Three Seas at 40: How Northeastern’s immersive marine biology program transforms students into scientists

Three Seas students, pictured here in Nahant, spend hours under water in three ocean environments and get certified in scientific diving. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Northeastern professor and coral reef expert Steve Vollmer...

Thermoresistant ‘super corals’ offer hope amid climate change: Scientists

Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images(TATAKOTO, FRENCH POLYNESIA) — A possible “biological treasure chest” of corals located in an underwater lagoon off a remote island in the South Pacific appear to be surviving extreme heat stress caused by climate...

Shark Attacks on Humans Aren’t Always What They Seem, Scientists Say

Sharks might not be as responsible for rare human bites as we assumed. In a study released today, scientists argue that at least some shark bites should be considered a form of self-defense. Marine biologists from France led the research,...

Influencers 'are to blame for rise in shark attacks': Scientists say they 'can't believe we have to tell people not to grab an 18-foot predator'

Influencers are to blame for a recent rise in shark attacks, according to scientists who say they 'can't believe we have to tell people not to grab an 18-foot predator'. Social media posts encouraging tourists to stroke the creatures have led them...

Some shark bites are ‘survival instinct’, researchers say in defence of threatened predator

“It’s more scared of you than you are of it” is a refrain parents use to humanise spiders to their children. That’s a little harder to believe of sharks, given their mighty appearance and characterisation in the media. But researchers have found...

These Tiny Snails Are Breeding in the Wild for the First Time in 40 Years in French Polynesia

This adult Partula tohiveana snail doesn't have a dot of UV-reflective paint on its shell, meaning it was born in the wild. Paul Pearce-Kelly In French Polynesia, tiny snails are making a big comeback. For the first time in nearly 40 years,...

These Tiny Snails Are Breeding in the Wild for the First Time in 40 Years in French Polynesia

© Paul Pearce Kelly A global conservation effort to reintroduce a tiny snail to the wild is celebrating a momentous milestone, as for the first time in 40 years, conservationists have found adult members of the species born in the wild. This means...

Navigating the US-PRC tech competition in the Global South

Report April 16, 2025 • 2:00 pm ET Print this page Navigating the US-PRC tech competition in the Global South By Cole McFaul and Peter Engelke Table of contents Introduction The US and China are in a race for technological supremacy. Policymakers...

Luxury Travel Advisors Reveal the 5 Biggest Travel Trends for 2026

5 Travel Trends That Will Be Huge in 2026 mariusz_prusaczyk - Getty ImagesFor travel lovers, the world awaits like never before, according to the experts at Virtuoso. The global travel agency network, which annually surveys its members, offers its...

5 Travel Trends That Will Be Huge in 2026

For travel lovers, the world awaits like never before, according to the experts at Virtuoso. The global travel agency network, which annually surveys its members, offers its latest look into 2026 and beyond—and it’s a tantalizing one. The...

Earth Observation technologies for Pacific sustainability

Earth Observation (EO) technologies are proving vital in advancing environmental sustainability and resilience across Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs). That was the key takeaway message for participants of the “Integrating Earth...

Seasteading is making a comeback — but these utopian paradises on the high seas have a history of failure

Wayne Gramlich was there at the very beginning of the Internet. While still in high school in the mid-1970s, the now 69-year-old managed to access the nascent technology — then called the ARPANET — and he decided on MIT for college because it was...