Beyond New Zealand, no other country is as embedded as Australia in the national and regional institutions of Pacific Islands ...

Africa is hurting again from a global crisis it had no part in starting. The world’s fastest-growing continent is reeling ...

Proponents say they want to dredge the seafloor for metals needed for clean technology. Indigenous Pacific Islanders call it a threat to life, culture, and the ocean itself.

When a magnitude 8.0 earthquake rattles a remote corner of the Pacific, the initial jolt lasts only seconds. But the planet ...

Atlantic hurricane season 2026 is afoot — and Americans are being urged to brace themselves ahead of the hubbub.

It began in the mid-1980s with a plan to open a trade route through Myanmar for China’s landlocked inland provinces of Yunnan ...

Ship-refuelling companies along Africa's coast are seeing a surge in business as more vessels divert around the Cape of Good ...

Dozens of Chinese research vessels are on a quest to map the sea floor at strategically vital regions of the world's oceans.

China is conducting a vast undersea mapping and monitoring operation across the Pacific, Indian and Arctic oceans, building ...

Waters surrounding Africa are climbing at rates that outpace the global average, according to peer-reviewed satellite data ...

For over three decades, satellites orbiting Earth have measured the height of the ocean surface with remarkable precision.