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Global action to protect oceans from climate change

Fisheries

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

October 23, 2024

RNZN divers surveying the area around HMNZS Manawanui

Fisheries

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

Tuvalu from the air

Fisheries

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

The World Trade Organisation (WTO)'s MC13 conference

Fisheries

Pacific nations and civil society raise concerns at WTO conference

Domestic airline Air Calédonie’s ATR 72-600 to fly biweekly to Port Vila from October 2024

Fisheries

New Caledonia crisis: Unrest-hit Air Calédonie in search of new markets

Trump's Pacific fisheries executive order

Fisheries

Trump executive orders roll back ocean fisheries protections in Pacific

April 19, 2025

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

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

Fisheries

Greenpeace activists aboard Rainbow Warrior disrupt Pacific industrial fishing operation

June 12, 2025

A Pacific protester against the Fukushima nuclear wastewater discharge plan

Fisheries

Countdown starts as Japan poised to release first batch of treated...

August 23, 2023

An Odysseus 6K remotely operated vehicle

Fisheries

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

July 30, 2024

Fresh fish at a wet market

Fisheries

How Fukushima wastewater into Pacific will disrupt seafood trade

April 15, 2023

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

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

The Gambier Islands

Fisheries

French Polynesia president announces huge highly protected marine area

June 11, 2025

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

US withdrawal from Pacific tuna treaty will take effect January 2017

January 21, 2016

Fisheries

Pacific officials join global tactics workshop to combat illegal fishing

March 7, 2016

The CIVICUS Monitor report

Fisheries

Crackdown on environmental activism as climate crisis worsens, says report

November 10, 2021

Fisheries

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

Pacific Media Watch -

June 5, 2017

Fisheries

Landmark report into illegal fishing will boost control efforts in Pacific

March 22, 2016

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

Arrested ship crew deny ‘bunkering’, other marine charges in PNG court

September 27, 2020

Fisheries

Work together on illegal fisheries – ‘no nation is immune’, says...

March 7, 2016

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre)

Fisheries

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

June 3, 2022

Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant

Fisheries

Japan to release treated Fukushima nuclear wastewater in weeks

August 8, 2023

Fisheries

Fiji’s climate change patterns hit pristine coral reefs hard

Anuja Nadkarni -

April 19, 2016

Fisheries

Poisonous starfish threatens survival of Pacific coral reefs

April 21, 2016

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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

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

Professor David Robie

Asia Report

David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

USP and AUT journalism collaboration

Bearing Witness

Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

Bearing Witness

Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

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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

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Asia Report

Israel thanks Fiji and PNG for opening Jerusalem embassies, UN support

Palestinian rally MC Lamees Elthiny speaks to a protest rally in Auckland today themed on the "BDS - Boycott Divestments Sanctions" campaign against New Zealand companies alleged to be complicit with Israel's genocide in Gaza

Asia Report

New Zealand backing Israel over two-state solution shows galling weak leadership

Palestinians mourn their relatives who were killed by the Israeli military in air strikes in spite of the Gaza ceasefire on 19 October 2025

Asia Report

The 60+ UN member states complicit with the Gaza genocide –...

"By helping each other we save each other."

Civil Society

Saige England: if we want to save the planet we need...

EDITOR'S PICKS

ABC's Fiji correspondent Lice Movono (from left), RNZ Pacific manager Moera Tuilaipa-Taylor and Islands Business editor Samantha Magick speaking during a women empowerment panel at the 2024 Pacific Media International conference

Democracy

Pacific Media: A renewed commitment to research on Pacific media, development...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu portrayed on a placard at a New Zealand pro-Palestine rally

Asia Report

Israeli torture, abuse of Palestinian prisoners, death penalty law – yet...

Pro-Palestinian activist Lamees Elthiny speaking to protesters in Auckland

Asia Report

Australian author says shadow Gaza transit scheme company is operating ‘disaster...

Palestinian rally MC Lamees Elthiny speaks to a protest rally in Auckland today themed on the "BDS - Boycott Divestments Sanctions" campaign against New Zealand companies alleged to be complicit with Israel's genocide in Gaza

Asia Report

New Zealand backing Israel over two-state solution shows galling weak leadership

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

ABC's Fiji correspondent Lice Movono (from left), RNZ Pacific manager Moera Tuilaipa-Taylor and Islands Business editor Samantha Magick speaking during a women empowerment panel at the 2024 Pacific Media International conference

Democracy

Pacific Media: A renewed commitment to research on Pacific media, development...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu portrayed on a placard at a New Zealand pro-Palestine rally

Asia Report

Israeli torture, abuse of Palestinian prisoners, death penalty law – yet...

Pro-Palestinian activist Lamees Elthiny speaking to protesters in Auckland

Asia Report

Australian author says shadow Gaza transit scheme company is operating ‘disaster...

Palestinian rally MC Lamees Elthiny speaks to a protest rally in Auckland today themed on the "BDS - Boycott Divestments Sanctions" campaign against New Zealand companies alleged to be complicit with Israel's genocide in Gaza

Asia Report

New Zealand backing Israel over two-state solution shows galling weak leadership