This is a map of the South Pacific Ocean showing the southern Polynesian islands (brown dashed line) examined in this study (blue boxes). Insets A–C show the study islands, including sediment ...

Scientists have discovered one of the largest known sea creatures – a coral the size of two football fields – off the Solomon ...

The South Pacific islands offer tropical weather, beautiful beaches, clear seas and coral reefs, as well as luxury resorts on islands like Fiji, Tahiti, Moorea, Vanuatu, Samoa, and more.

You may have to trek a bit to reach the thousands of islands that comprise the South Pacific, but the journey is well worth the effort. In this vast area, you'll discover unspoiled beaches ...

SEE: Before and after images/video of this Pacific island, destroyed and restored to be a breeding ground for sea turtles and ...

The regional cooperation displayed by the South Pacific islands over these past two decades is a strong endorsement of regional cooperation, and should be extended to other areas such as trade ...

This week, Japan announced that a U.S. aircraft carrier will arrive at its home port near Tokyo in mid-to-late November for ...

When he served three terms as President of the small South-Pacific nation of Kiribati from ... like building a huge floating island to house Kiribati residents, were simply “attention-grabbing ...

Her thoughts went immediately to her family on this fragile coastline in the middle of the Pacific ... a stick-and-shell map of the currents of the Marshall Islands nailed to the ceiling above ...

Initially, U.S. Marine Corps major general William Rupertus predicted that it would take less than a week to capture the South Pacific island of Peleliu, but in the end it took 74 days to achieve ...

Because of its small size, South Padre Island is often grouped with other towns along the Gulf Coast of Texas, such as Port Isabel and Brownsville, both of which make great daytrips. The town of ...

Both China and the Philippines claim Scarborough Shoal and other outcroppings in the South China Sea. China seized the shoal, ...