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Fishing for coherent regulations along Fiji’s coral reefs

‘Hope springs eternal’: the anniversary of the death of Lonesome George

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

By the bones: herring populations were superabundant before commercial fisheries

Trawling: destructive fishing method is turning seafloors to ‘deserts’

Extreme cold and drought in U.S. linked to climate change

Former Miss South Pacific steps into new conservation role

Loggers plan to clear 20 percent of tropical island paradise

Japan changes its mind about Antarctic whaling ban, plans to continue hunts in 2015

Extinction crisis: rising sea levels will submerge thousands of islands

Court partially stops Japan’s ‘scientific’ whaling, but Pacific harvests to continue

Corals thriving despite acidified conditions in remote Pacific bay

Scientists discover new eagle ray imperiled by Japanese pest program (photos)

Satellites reveal browning mountain forests

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

DNA tests reveal new dolphin species (photos)

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

First study of little-known mammal reveals climate change threat

The ‘dead’ ocean: eyewitness says overfishing has emptied the Pacific

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

Natural cooling cycle in Pacific may have slowed global warming…for now

Finding a needle in a haystack: two new species of octocorals discovered in the Pacific Ocean

Ocean acidification pushing young oysters into ‘death race’

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

Industrialized fishing has forced seabirds to change what they eat

The world’s largest ‘waste dump’ is found in the Pacific Ocean

Saviors or villains: controversy erupts as New Zealand plans to drop poison over Critically Endangered frog habitat

Humans killed over 10 percent of the world’s bird species when they colonized the Pacific Islands

Heavy metal shark meat: dangerous lead levels found in sharks used as fish food

The Role of Science for Conservation – book review

U.S. Admiral: climate change, not North Korea, biggest threat in the Pacific

Extinction warning: racing to save the little dodo from its cousin’s fate

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