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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that seeks to open up 400,000 square miles of ocean southwest of ...
She said the amount of fuel that had spilled into the ocean was less than what had been reported by Samoan officials and that much of what the ship was carrying burned out in the fire. Samoa’s Prime ...
Mr. Trump issued an executive order opening up the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument, which lies some 750 ...
A firm developing underwater robots to harvest mineral-rich nodules from the ocean floor is seeking approval to investigate ...
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It is time to support Pacific Ocean stewards
Pacific Island nations are working to protect their waters from the impact of climate change, but can’t do it alone.
Once they had reached the mid-ocean archipelagos of Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa, these seafarers - the immediate ancestors of the Polynesians - were alone in the ocean, for only they had the canoes and ...
The answer lies in the deeply-rooted traditions of Polynesian culture. The people of the Pacific are intimately tied to the ocean. They sailed the sea hundreds of years before Europeans ...