While the natural beauty of Oceania still stuns—from the volcanic heart of New Zealand to the reef-fringed Pacific—2026 is ...

For now, the Pacific Islands have mostly sought to avoid explicit alignment with either China or the United States and its partners. At this year’s Pacific Islands Forum Leaders ...

The U.S. has deployed troops and anti-ship missiles into the northern Philippines as part of almost continuous, joint war ...

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

President Donald Trump says the United States will share closely held technology to allow South Korea to build a ...

Senior forestry officials from Indonesia, Viet Nam and Nepal, along with private-sector partners and climate finance experts convened in Seoul this week to advance efforts toward scaling up ...

To counter China’s formidable anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) threat, the U.S. Navy is pivoting to a “Distributed Maritime ...

WASHINGTON, October 7, 2025 — East Asia and Pacific region continues to outperform most of the rest of the world, but creating more jobs and sustaining growth will require ambitious reforms as the ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

“Scares me especially thinking about my kids, their future, the island future, and the Marshallese future. It's very scary. We might be losing our people.” It’s Friday. And Korab Lanwe is making his ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Hawaiʻi is no stranger to the ocean’s power. Most people know tsunamis as towering waves caused by earthquakes far across the Pacific. What many do not know is that the islands ...

A standoff between New Zealand and the Cook Islands reflects an urgent question in the Pacific: Is China a threat or a partner for growth? By Victoria Kim Reporting from Wellington, New Zealand Every ...