These cities will see the last partial solar eclipse of 2025 on Sunday

Days after the Moon turned blood-red during a total lunar eclipse, stargazers are ready for the next celestial event, the partial solar eclipse. This will be the last solar eclipse of the year, offering a spectacular celestial event visible in...

Climate Exodus

“Internal displacement is the great tragedy of our time. The internally displaced people are among the most vulnerable of the human family.” –Kofi Annan, Former UN Secretary-General Sakina* and her family were displaced after the 2022 floods in...

Australian PM fails to finalise neo-colonial defence treaty with Papua New Guinea

A push by the Australian Labor government to strengthen its neo-colonial dominance in the South West Pacific received a setback this week, when the government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) failed to endorse a wide-ranging defence treaty. Labor, acting...

What will happen when the small Pacific states disappear under the sea?

WHAT happens when climate change meets the 21st-century version of the Great Game? The destiny of the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu may hold some clues. This country has a population of just 10,643 at last count and is located midway between...

Experts gather in Singapore to discuss healthcare emissions cut

Experts gather in Singapore to discuss healthcare emissions cut September 19, 2025 | Friday | News A new coalition of Asia-Pacific countries, backed by WHO Globally, 5% of total climate emissions come from the healthcare sector, contributing to...

Fiji receives Jack Ma Foundation COVID-19 protective equipment

The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat has handed over medical supplies to the Fiji Government as it battles a surge of COVID-19 cases. The personal protective equipment (PPE) was a donation from the Jack Ma Foundation to the Forum Secretariat for...

WHO Pushes Asia-Pacific Health Systems Toward Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient Future

Cambodia’s Nationally Determined Contribution recognizes the impact of climate change on health, especially affecting children and the elderly, setting out five priority actions for adaptation. Photo: WHO Cambodia/Aforative Media PHNOM PENH—The...

A case for adopting a climate passport

Every year, families in Bhola, Khulna, and Shatkhira lose their homes to floods and erosion. Most move to city slums, where life is extremely precarious. Internal migration is already straining our cities. By 2050, the number of people forced to...

Australia’s strategy of denial in engaging with its ‘Pacific family’

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attended the 54th Pacific Islands Forum last week. During a short press conference in Honiara, Albanese mentioned our “Pacific family” four times. Despite that warm and fuzzy metaphor, the cold reality is that...

U.S moves to reinvigorate Pacific partnership with big pledges in Port Moresby

The United States has rolled out a sweeping package of economic, security, and health commitments to Pacific Island nations, signalling what it calls a “reinvigorated” partnership with the region. At a U.S-Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) roundtable in...

How to watch Man City vs Napoli: live Champions League 2025/26 game, free streams, team news

The Man City vs Napoli live stream sees Pep Guardiola's side kick-start their Champions League campaign against Italian opposition. Man City were crowned kings of the continent just two years ago, but they fell well short in this competition last...

Bezos Earth Fund invests $37.5M to accelerate Pacific-led ocean protection

Grants will safeguard 835,000 square miles (2.16 million km²) of ocean across 12 countries and territories Washington, D.C. — A groundbreaking effort led by Pacific Island leaders to safeguard the ocean took a major step forward today, with the...

An Entire Country Has to Be Evacuated Because of Climate Change

"The existential threat we face is not of our making. But it will remake us." Going Under Tuvalu, a small island nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is planning to evacuate all of its over 11,000 inhabitants, due to rising sea levels caused...

This Weekend Sees The Year’s Second And Final Solar Eclipse

Topline A deep solar eclipse will occur at sunrise as seen from the Southern Hemisphere this weekend. In the wake of a partial solar eclipse in North America on March 29, skywatchers in New Zealand, Antarctica and the South Pacific who get up...

Pacific countries review impact of biosecurity capacity building programmes

Biosecurity officers from across the Pacific met in Fiji recently to review the impact of biosecurity training programmes delivered under the Safe Agricultural Trade Facilitation through Economic Integration in the Pacific (SAFE Pacific) project...

Cooks, Tonga, strengthen ties

CLIMATE change will remake the Pacific, even though it is not of the Pacific’s making. Tuvalu Prime Minister Feleti Teo said this was the irony of a phenomenon declared by the region’s leaders to be the greatest existential threat to the lives and...

Half of this country wants to move to Australia, but not all want to leave for good

"It's too beautiful," Lailega Neemia says of her homeland, Tuvalu. "It's a good place to retire … stress-free ... very relaxed lifestyle over there." But the ocean is rising and she, like many other Tuvaluans, worries their home may be completely...

Australia and Papua New Guinea: a relationship worth investing in

‘Australia is secure when Papua New Guinea is secure, and Papua New Guinea is secure when Australia is secure.’ So said Billy Joseph, PNG’s minister for defence, at the ASPI Defence Conference in June. This sentiment underpinned the intent of both...

Marape successfully concludes round of meetings with visiting dignitaries

Prime Minister James Marape successfully concluded a long round of back-to-back meetings with heads of governments who arrived in the country to participate in the celebrations marking PNG’s 50th Independence anniversary. The hectic schedule of...

Bezos Earth Fund invests AUD57 million to accelerate Pacific-led ocean protection

Grants will safeguard 835,000 square miles (2.16 million km²) of ocean across 12 countries and territories WASHINGTON, D.C –A groundbreaking effort led by Pacific Island leaders to safeguard the ocean took a major step forward today, with the...