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The worst hit areas are Yap state and parts of the northern Marshall Islands.

Yap state is one of the areas hardest hit. It has some water reservoirs, but outer islands rely solely on rainwater, and supplies are dwindling.

It comes as the US Drought Monitor has upgraded conditions on Wotje in the Marshall Islands and on Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia from severe to extreme.

Cook Islands is bolstering its fight against single-use plastics by investing millions of dollars into a project aimed primarily at the hospitality, food and tourism sectors.

There’s confusion in the Samoan diaspora after a constitutional change extended the right to vote to overseas Samoans.

The father of two and former Auckland mayoral candidate was raising money to bring safe drinking water to children in the Pacific region, before he suffered a medical incident.

Cook Islands’ environmentalists are tackling the plastics problem in their remote environment by asking schoolchildren for help.

This week, world leaders are meeting in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to attend the world’s most important climate meeting, COP28.

A not-for-profit is calling on Australian academics to volunteer and share their expertise with Pacific universities.

Pacific aid experts say the fight against climate change and the inclusion of local communities in decision-making should be on top of the agenda for future development planning.