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Patrolling sharks on a post-nuclear reef. Image by Greg Asner.

The search for survivors in a post-nuclear reefscape

Greg Asner, Clare LeDuff 10 Sep 2018

Plant communities roar back after rat removal from Pacific islands

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2018
Planet satellite image of coral off Belize's Lighthouse Reef. Taken March 28, 2018.

A global coral reef monitoring system is coming soon

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jun 2018

Seabird secrets revealed by bioacoustics in New Zealand

Mike Gaworecki 1 May 2018

Can the Solomon Islands’ Gold Ridge Mine serve as a new model for resource extraction in the South Pacific?

Catherine Wilson 15 Nov 2017

Papua New Guinea moves to launch new coal mining industry

Catherine Wilson 16 May 2017

Rio Tinto walks away from environmental responsibility for Bougainville’s Panguna mine

Catherine Wilson 6 Apr 2017

Military base-building destroys coral reefs in the South China Sea

Greg Asner 26 Mar 2017

Papua New Guinea’s oil and gas boom – blessing or curse?

David Hutt 22 Dec 2016

Human impacts are ‘decoupling’ coral reef ecosystems

Jeremy Hance 9 Mar 2015

Reeling in religious messages: how faith impacts fisheries in Fiji

Amy West 25 Nov 2014

Top scientists raise concerns over commercial logging on Woodlark Island

Jeremy Hance 21 Oct 2014

Extinction island? Plans to log half an island could endanger over 40 species

Jeremy Hance 22 Sep 2014

Fishing for coherent regulations along Fiji’s coral reefs

Amy West 16 Jul 2014

Dying for Fiji’s Sea Cucumbers

Amy West 23 Jun 2014

Bigger than Mexico? Obama announces major expansion of Pacific protected area

Jeremy Hance 18 Jun 2014

Former Miss South Pacific steps into new conservation role

Amy West 15 May 2014

New Caledonia officially creates world’s largest protected area (photos)

Mongabay.com 2 May 2014

Loggers plan to clear 20 percent of tropical island paradise

Jeremy Hance 28 Apr 2014

Extinction crisis: rising sea levels will submerge thousands of islands

Bobbie Edwards 8 Apr 2014

Corals thriving despite acidified conditions in remote Pacific bay

Tanya Dimitrova 25 Feb 2014

On edge of extinction, could drones and technology save the Little Dodo?

Jeremy Hance 10 Feb 2014

Protected forests linked to healthy coral reefs in Fiji

Andrew Mann 27 Jan 2014

Giant clams are easy to recognize, but genetics proves there is more than meets the eye

Nika Levikov 21 Dec 2013

Scientists discover a new coral in the French Polynesia

Ariel Mark 20 Dec 2013

Beetles in the spotlight: a new species of burying beetle from the Solomon Islands Archipelago

Raja Bandi 7 Nov 2013

‘Lost’ bird rediscovered in New Caledonia along with 16 potentially new species (photos)

Jeremy Hance 29 Oct 2013

First study of little-known mammal reveals climate change threat

Jeremy Hance 28 Oct 2013

President’s pledge to ban commercial fishing around Pacific island nation slow to materialize

Tanya Dimitrova 23 Sep 2013

Solomon Islands’ banks shut down logging company accounts

Mongabay.com 16 Aug 2013

Logging endangers UNESCO World Heritage Site in Solomon Islands

Mongabay.com 22 Jun 2013

Pacific islanders are the ‘victims of industrial countries unable to control their carbon dioxide emissions’

Claudine Wéry 15 May 2013

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