Marine ecosystems in one of the Pacific's most vulnerable regions face decline unless they are better managed, a WWF report warned Tuesday. The report described the ocean as the lifeblood of Melanesia ...

The members of the 18th Melanesian Spearhead Group Summit which was held in Suva, Fiji in March were presented a Green initiative that looked at achieving sustainable development for economic growth ...

The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) is collaborating with Pacific Island nations to boost coral reef monitoring by integrating ...

Conservationists in the Melanesia area are mourning the death of Belgian-born botanist Henri Blaffart, swept away in by a flooded river in northern New Caledonia on March 21. “Henri Blaffart was an ...

Solomon Islands middle-distance runner Stephen Rahuasi has won the bronze medal in the men’s 800m at the 2025 Oceania Cup in ...

With a swipe of a pen in 1832, Jules Dumont D’Urville, a French explorer, divided the islands of the Pacific into Micronesia, Polynesia and Melanesia. He named one group after the smallness of its ...

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 ...