Multiple flooding events have occurred in Queensland since the start of 2025 with a combination of weak La Nina and record ...

People along the densely populated Pacific coasts are exposed to strongly fluctuating rainfall patterns: In East Asia, heavy rain falls in summer, and flooding is already one of the climate risks in ...

A round-up of news from around the region, including an Imam in PNG saying he is fine with the country being a Christian nation as long as freedom of religion is still respected.

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

With curators from mainland Japan, Taiwan and Okinawa, the festival was anchored by works from those three regions, with the ...

Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific ...

Since that first sail on Hōkūleʻa, he has traveled across Polynesia and to Micronesia and realized that the ocean unites far more than it divides Pacific peoples. “In Oceania it took us a long time to ...

CalFire released its fourth and final round of color-coded hazard maps. Different colors come with different rules.

Alexus Cazares-Nuesser, University of Hawaii (THE CONVERSATION) Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure.

China is rapidly expanding its deep-sea exploration efforts, sending fleets of research vessels far beyond its shores. While ...

With some of the largest Exclusive Economic Zones in the world, Pacific Island states are leveraging legal frameworks to advance ocean justice ... threats and opportunities while there is still time ...

The most recent risk assessment, outlined in maps published by the California Geological Survey, illustrate the devastation ...