The tiny island nation Tuvalu may be underwater by 2050 due to climate change and rising sea levels. Amanda Coffee paid it a ...

Trump’s dismantling of the aid agency has jeopardized U.S. commitments to the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau.

Where islands outnumber towns and coastlines fragment into thousands of pieces, here are the countries with the most islands.

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

In most world maps published by the West with the Atlantic Ocean as the center, the Pacific Island countries are on the margin. But they occupy the center of the world maps published by China that put ...

While the island states in the Pacific may be modest, the ocean that surrounds them represents a huge oceanic state--an area equivalent to the entire European Continent.

In most world maps published by the West with the Atlantic Ocean as the center, the Pacific Island countries are on the margin. But they occupy the center of the world maps published by China that ...

Open a book of maps and look for the “Indo-Pacific” region – it likely won’t be there. Yet the Indo-Pacific is now central to how many countries think about strategy and security. It describes a ...

It is a semi-colony of New Zealand with limited self-government and, like all the impoverished countries in the Pacific, economically dependent on international aid and loans.

Kiribati is the first country in the world to celebrate 2025. The last country to issue in the new year will be the Baker Island and Howland Island.