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Pacific delegates warn against US fast-tracking seabed mining

January 28, 2026

Every time a Fiji student misses school because the river that she crosses is flooded or at risk of flooding, that student is denied the full enjoyment of this right

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Climate change and human rights demands telling our Pacific stories with clarity and impact

An Odysseus 6K remotely operated vehicle

Fisheries

Vanuatu fights for marine protection at key UN deep-sea mining summit

A Pacific protester against the Fukushima nuclear wastewater discharge plan

Fisheries

Countdown starts as Japan poised to release first batch of treated nuclear wastewater

The Gambier Islands

Fisheries

French Polynesia president announces huge highly protected marine area

New Zealand's planned fisheries laws changes "spell disaster for the already struggling ocean around us"

Fisheries

Greenpeace condemns NZ’s ‘dodgy reforms’ plan weakening ocean protection

August 7, 2025

RNZN divers surveying the area around HMNZS Manawanui

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‘We’re eating tinned fish’ – Samoa villagers plead for Manawanui wreckage...

October 19, 2025

US Vice-President Kamala Harris

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Fiji police evict two Chinese defence attaches amid Pacific Forum tensions

Pacific Media Watch -

July 13, 2022

Trump's Pacific fisheries executive order

Fisheries

Trump executive orders roll back ocean fisheries protections in Pacific

April 19, 2025

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Researchers explore Pacific Ocean’s hidden deep ‘secrets’

April 26, 2016

Global action to protect oceans from climate change

Fisheries

Apia Ocean Declaration to be ‘crown jewel’ of CHOGM climate ‘fight...

October 23, 2024

The Rainbow Warrior III in action against industrial longlining fishing in the South Pacific

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Greenpeace activists aboard Rainbow Warrior disrupt Pacific industrial fishing operation

June 12, 2025

Fisheries

Ocean at ‘breaking point’: Pacific angst at latest climate report

October 3, 2019

Tuvalu from the air

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World’s ‘smallest university’, but Tuvalu campus has big local impact

January 29, 2024

Greenpeace activists, along with representatives of Taranaki iwi Ngāti Ruanui, disrupted the annual general meeting of Manuka Resources

Fisheries

Norway halts seabed mining, putting more pressure on NZ to do...

December 3, 2024

Fisheries

American Samoa tuna cannery closure prompts fisheries gifts to Tokelau

Mackenzie Smith -

May 29, 2017

twin catastrophic threats of climate change and a pandemic

Fisheries

Australians are 3 times more worried about climate change than covid....

August 7, 2021

Fisheries

Tuna fishing deal dispute keeps US boats out of Pacific waters

January 18, 2016

Fisheries

US withdrawal from Pacific tuna treaty will take effect January 2017

January 21, 2016

Fisheries

Vanuatu agrees to pay Vt18 million fine to avoid fisheries blacklisting

December 5, 2016

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre)

Fisheries

China’s whirlwind Pacific tour a slight success with several signed deals

June 3, 2022

A Te Pāti Māori member's bill to ban deep seabed mining has failed to gain traction

Fisheries

‘This industry will trash our moana’ warning but bid to ban...

May 11, 2023

Australian anti-nuclear activist Nat Lowrey (left) joined activists from Japan, Tonga and Fiji in Sapporo, Japan,

Fisheries

Japan’s Fukushima nuclear waste plan stirs ‘Pacific Chernobyl’ risk protests

June 29, 2023

Fisheries

Fred Wesley: Our environment message needs to be in every corner...

Pacific Media Watch -

June 5, 2017

PNG Jackson Kiakari

Fisheries

Jackson Kiakari: What happened to the PNG dream? How did paradise...

April 3, 2021

The Indonesian fishing boats reportedly seized by the PNG Defence Force

Fisheries

Post-Courier: Border patrol by soldiers or navy must be taken seriously

Pacific Media Watch -

August 29, 2022

Fisheries

‘Shared stewardship’ of ocean key to Pacific Forum strategy

Pacific Media Watch -

September 5, 2017

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm

Analysis

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors

Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent

Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson

Coronavirus

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay talks to the main party leaders in last night's debate

Analysis

NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all

Coronavirus

NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...

The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants

Coronavirus

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

BEARING WITNESS

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

Analysis

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide

Analysis

Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"

Analysis

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

Asia Report

27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

APJS newsfile

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

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APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

APJS newsfile

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

APJS newsfile

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

APJS newsfile

Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)

APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

A drone view of the Marshalls Energy Company's main power plant in Majuro

Analysis

Majuro reels from huge power rate increase, as govt steps up...

Activist Mike Smith

Climate

‘Affront to democracy’ – NZ law change halts landmark climate crisis...

Mistreatment of the Sumud prisoners also breaches the Convention Against Torture

Analysis

Did NZ’s Prime Minister just commit treason? PM ignores terrorist attack...

The French Ambassador to Vanuatu, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, with Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat in March last year

Business

French ambassador’s social media diplomacy lands poorly in Vanuatu

EDITOR'S PICKS

Pacific media in action .

Crime

Tongan media faces new type of challenge, following threat

Starkly, in Israel’s case, not only does its actions in Gaza look like genocide, but its leaders have been crystal clear

Analysis

The West’s bubble of illusion about Israel – and about itself...

Mistreatment of the Sumud prisoners also breaches the Convention Against Torture

Analysis

Did NZ’s Prime Minister just commit treason? PM ignores terrorist attack...

Activist Mike Smith

Climate

‘Affront to democracy’ – NZ law change halts landmark climate crisis...

MOST COMMENTS

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

Global

Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Pacific media in action .

Crime

Tongan media faces new type of challenge, following threat

Starkly, in Israel’s case, not only does its actions in Gaza look like genocide, but its leaders have been crystal clear

Analysis

The West’s bubble of illusion about Israel – and about itself...

Mistreatment of the Sumud prisoners also breaches the Convention Against Torture

Analysis

Did NZ’s Prime Minister just commit treason? PM ignores terrorist attack...

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu

Analysis

Netanyahu stresses the need for more propaganda as Israel’s Hasbara budget...