Imported food is expensive, climate change in the islands is not a theoretical phenomenon that may or may not happen in the future and opportunities elsewhere seem abundant. Leaving has the feel of common sense. Staying appears irrational.

When Meré Tari Sovick asked participants to lift a glass of water during a recent virtual session, the moment was quiet and unassuming. It was also intentional. Before speaking about storytelling, Sovick invited everyone to acknowledge water first. Not as a resource or a topic of study, but as something living and shared.

Farmers in Fiji and Tonga are relying more on farmer-led organizations than government agencies as they adapt to climate change, according to new research conducted by the Pacific Farmers Organization in partnership with the University of Notre Dame.

When the United States recently escalated its confrontation with Venezuela—carrying out strikes in Caracas and capturing President Nicolás Maduro—the moves were framed as political intervention.

American Samoa has signed an agreement with Google to build a fiber-optic cable connecting the U.S. territory to Fiji and French Polynesia as part of the Pacific Connect initiative.

By the end of 2025, Napat’s government defeated one motion of no confidence, earned global accolades for the historic ICJ advisory opinion on climate justice and struck a VT4.25 billion (A$58 million) collective bargaining agreement that resolved longstanding grievances over teacher pay.

The Federated States of Micronesia’s Compact Trust Fund reached a $2 billion mark at the end of fiscal 2025, prefiguring further growth to a level that would secure the Pacific nation’s future, officials said.

It has been more than two years since the Federated States of Micronesia created the Office of the Independent Prosecutor through a constitutional amendment, but the agency has not been formally established because the funds required to get started are in limbo, according to FSM Independent Prosecutor Lucas M. Cupps.

Australia is due to receive the world’s first officially recognized climate refugees in 2026. They will arrive at a time when the country’s far right is insurgent and climate change threatens the existence of Pacific nations.

Koror, Palau: Photo by Mar-Vic Cagurangan/Pacific Island Times By Cleo Paskal    The Trump administration’s approach to foreign policy has, in capitals across the world, triggered fear, anger and above all confusion about direction and methods. The “deconstruction” has been easy to see, with the absorption of USAID into State, the recalling of ambassadors and more. With the release of the National Security Strategy and a detailed look at how one key relationship is being hand

In the Marshall Islands, seafaring and weaving are two traditions that withstood the test of time, amid pressures from modernization, migration and climate change. With deep roots that go way before European contact, these traditions remain central to the Marshallese culture and identity, keeping the past connected to the present.

On Jan. 2, the U.S. led a covert mission to capture and arrest Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. After weeks of sabre-rattling and military buildups in the Caribbean, elite U.S military personnel carried out a secret operation that was months in the making.