Ocean warming to take its toll on Pacific islands’ tuna industry

SUVA (PACIFIC ISLAND TIMES) — Pacific island nations, whose economies rely on tuna, are facing a 10 to 30 percent harvest decline by 2050 due to climate-related fish migration, according to research by Conservation International and the Pacific...

Kiribati voices concern over ongoing missile testing in the Pacific Ocean

Castle Bravo, the first in a series of high-yield thermonuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands as part of Operation Castle, March 1954. Photo: United States Department of Energy The Kiribati...

No waiting as Pacific leads

A GAME-CHANGING commitment has been forged in the Pacific Region with European Union (EU) Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jozef Síkela, boldly declaring a new era of partnership. With an investment strategy in focus in the Pacific...

FEATURE – Deep-sea mining — Its impact in the Pacific

FOR scores of indigenous Pacific communities, the ocean remains a mysterious, vital heartbeat that sustains life on the planet. It’s a relationship that has been forged over centuries of reverence and respect for the ocean and the many mysteries...

Kiribati elects pro-China President for a third term

Kiribati President Taneti Maamau has been re-elected for a third time after voters across the Micronesian nation returned for the popular vote last Friday. The 64-year-old defeated two other candidates in an election closely monitored by Pacific...

World First: TMC and PAMCO Achieve a New Nodule Processing Milestone, Unlocking Critical Energy & Steelmaking Materials at Existing Facilities

Breadcrumb Trail Links GlobeNewswire Author of the article: Published Feb 18, 2025 • 7 minute read During the processing campaign, PAMCO operators fed calcine material into an electric-arc furnace, producing high-grade nickel-copper-cobalt alloy...

Offer fishing discounts:PNG Fishing Industry Association

Papua New Guinea can expect increased job opportunities and millions of kina in revenue if the Government considers offering discounts on fishing days, says the Fishing Industry Association (PNG) Inc. Association president and chairman Sylvester...

The Deepening Friendship and Partnership between Kiribati and Australia

By Ruth Cross Kwansing, Kiribati Minister of Women, Youth, Sport and Social Affairs Last week, our nation welcomed Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles. While the visit was exciting for all of Kiribati, it was particularly significant...

Kiribati expands its paravet pool to bolster animal health care

“Our islands are spread out and any outbreak of disease is a concern as they are isolated. Having these professionals in the field, or rather on each island, they can provide advice right there or contain the disease,” she added. SPC Pacific Heads...

NZ-Kiribati fallout: A ‘Pacific way’ perspective on the Peters spat

A NZ-born Kiribati member of Parliament, Ruth Cross Kwansing, has tried to bring in some Pacific common sense into the diplomatic tiff between her country and Aotearoa New Zealand. Her original title on her social media posting was “A storm in a...

Explaining the ‘diplomatic tiff’ between New Zealand and Kiribati

A cancelled meeting in the Pacific raises larger questions about aid, climate change and the role of China and the US in the world’s biggest ocean. New Zealand is reviewing its aid for Kiribati after the president of the Pacific country declined...

Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister on the digital nomad visa, New Zealand's relationship with Kiribati

Christopher Luxon's defending the Government's handling of its new stand-off with Kiribati. New Zealand's relationship with the central Pacific Island nation appears to have reached an all-time low. Aid to the country has been put on hold pending...

Kiribati fishermen bring expertise and song to Australia’s tuna farms

It’s not uncommon to hear Port Lincoln’s crew of Kiribati fishermen burst spontaneously into song while at work. Their sweet-sounding harmonies are reminders that despite being naturals on the water, the community of seasonal tuna industry workers...

Kiribati calls for UN reform and collective action to face global crises

Kiribati’s Permanent representative to the United Nations, Teburoro Tito, used the platform of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly to call for urgent reform of the United Nations Security Council and emphasise the need for collective...

UN shipping body considers zero emissions goal, defers decision to 2023

Countries are open to strengthening a global climate goal for shipping, but not before a planned review of the strategy in 2023. That was the upshot of talks in the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) environment committee on Monday and...

Seabed mining equity dilemmas in the Pacific

Seabed mining can affect fisheries and the flow-on social equity issues need to be addressed. By Aline Jaeckel, Quentin Hanich, Harriet Harden-Davies, Judith van Leeuwen, Holly Niner, Katherine L. Seto and Michelle Voyer What is currently hundreds...

Today in High Prairie: September 14, 2025

Today in High Prairie! See what’s happening today in town, celebrity birthdays, local history, world history and your daily horoscope. Please send your birthdays and community events to southpeacenews@hotmail.com and/or spneditor@outlook.com....

Ex-Pacific leaders want UN action on cleaning up shipping industry

A group of former Pacific leaders want the UN agency mandated to regulate international shipping “to take meaningful strides” to end the industry’s reliance on dirty fossil fuels. The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) is meeting for a...

Claim the Kiribati Government ignores manifesto commitments

Ieremia Tabai MP from Nonouti. Tabai was the first Beretitenti President of Kiribati. Photo: Supplied/UNDP An opposition MP in Kiribati, Sir Ieremia Tabai, said the Budget, presented late last year, did not include any funding for the commitments...

Joseph Kirite from Kiribati moves to Fiji to expand his music career after releasing 10 albums

Joseph Kirite from Kiribati moves to Fiji to expand his music career after releasing 10 albums 18-year-old Joseph Taake Kirite from Kiribati who put his name on the music stage back at home after being part of the music production named Ocean...