Hugo Hodge

Palau's corals have emerged unscathed from the world's devastating marine heatwaves. Researchers are breeding and planting them to save reefs from disappearing.

Vanuatu is one of the most disaster-prone nations on the planet, with cyclones, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. And its people now face an unsettling question: how many disasters can one nation take?

A former striker for Vanuatu's national youth soccer team drowned in a dam while on the job in Australia. He's one of at least 64 Pacific seasonal workers who have died here since 2020.

Rugby league is one of Australia's most celebrated cultural exports, but experts fear its ties to gambling are having an insidious effect on Pacific communities. 

Legend has it a jealous husband used a wave curse to sink Teonimenu into the ocean forever. Scientists have worked out what really happened.

Nearly 1,500 Pacific ancestors are held in 13 museums and universities across Australia — but for the most part, the institutions are not repatriating remains and some believe there are cases that “might prove impossible”.

Nearly 30 years after releasing an era-defining song, the Fuenama family are back in the spotlight with the reissue of a forgotten but seminal album.

In a region historically linked more closely with Israel than Palestine, some activists in the Pacific Islands have been speaking up against the status quo, staging rallies and voicing solidarity on social media.

Government data shows a fourfold increase in the deaths of PALM participants in the last financial year, while a new report shows Australian industries are more reliant on Pacific workers than ever before.

A first-of-its-kind protest against deep-sea mining in international waters saw activists board a vessel and halt its operations. 

Fiji have pulled off a historic upset to beat Guam, claiming the basketball gold at the Pacific Games, 51 -47.

Samoan Maeu Nanai Livi has scored his first-ever Pacific Games gold, sweeping the 96kg men’s weightlifting division and taking home all three top medals.

A new, first-of-its-kind Australian permanent resident visa will soon be available to people from the Pacific Islands and Timor-Leste after it was successfully legislated in Parliament last week. Here’s what we know so far.

Vanuatu's Rugby Nines may lack international competition experience, but the absence of 2019's Pacific Games silver medallists, Papua New Guinea, will help their chances.

Over 200 climate scientists have taken out a full-page ad in the New York Times calling out Australia’s “climate annihilation”, while Fijian activists impacted by rising sea levels urge Canberra to do more.

Tuvalu says the impacts of climate change have forced it to create a digital copy of itself in the metaverse. But in the real world, not everyone’s convinced.

Members of Melbourne’s Pasifika community were out in force for a new Pacific culture festival over the weekend.

In a Port Moresby hotel, Papua New Guinean singer Danielle Morgan had tears streaming down her face as she made history as the first female winner of the region’s largest music competition, Pacific Break.

Experts on Pacific history hit out at a popular new series on Netflix which they say is founded on “racist ideologies”.

Pacific Break was launched in 2008 with the simple goal of celebrating music from across the Pacific, already unearthing six island artists from five different countries whose talents have been put on the world stage.