The Melanesian Ocean Reserve is the first indigenous led, multi-national Ocean reserve on Earth. It is important, because it demonstrates that indigenous people can come up with initiatives to steward and guard and protect our planet. Eric calls for action at this year’s COP.
Researchers at the University of Hawaii have studied how the marine ecosystem is affected in the Clarion–Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean, where mining is currently being tested. The report shows that sediments stirred up by mining disrupt the food chain.
For the people of the Pacific Islands, the sea is life, it provides most of their food, it regulates their climate. It’s a familiar friend, but for these low-lying island nations, rising seas are now threatening their very existence. Ironically, this threat has its origins far away, where emissions from industries that have enriched the world's most powerful industrial nations are the biggest contributors to the changes that make Elson Kelen, a community leader on Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands, fear for the future of his children and grandchildren.
This Pacific island nation could be completely flooded within 25 years due to rising sea levels. To address the threat of climate change, Tuvalu is now planning the world's first organized relocation of an entire nation.
This is the story of a very remote place in one of the least visited countries on earth. And about people forced into exile.
Rising sea levels are a looming disaster that risks hitting Pacific island nations particularly hard. This is the message from UN Secretary-General António Guterres at a summit of Pacific leaders: - I am in Tonga to issue a global SOS - Save our Seas - on rising sea levels.
A massive accumulation of garbage is floating around in the Pacific Ocean and has become a home for species such as anemones and crabs. A new floating ecosystem has emerged, according to researchers.
Soon a decision will be made about mining at the deepest bottom of the world's oceans. Major stakeholders are in the starting blocks
It has been known for some time that humpback whales can communicate over great distances. The song is carried along during the humpback whale's long migrations across the oceans and researchers have now seen how local songs have migrated further across the Pacific - from the coast of Australia all the way to Ecuador, reports Vetenskapsradion.
Fishermen risk being left without income and with damaged fish stocks after the oil leak that occurred near the coast of rayong province in eastern Thailand on Tuesday
Penguins, sea lions and seabirds have died and fishermen have lost their income after an oil disaster in Peru - triggered by the eruption of a volcano in Tonga hundreds of miles away. 21 beaches on the Pacific coast have been polluted by the oil leak and an environmental emergency has been declared
Scientists have established that some form of marine life lives in 90 percent of the larger plastic objects in the vast garbage area of the Pacific Ocean. They fear that it could have negative effects on marine ecosystems
At the forefront of climate change is Tonga – an island nation in the Pacific Ocean where rising sea levels, warmer waters and tropical cyclones pose an increasing threat. "The sea is everything to us. But it's on fire," the country's delegate Uili Lousi told TT [Tidningarnas Telegrambyra] at the climate summit
