Since 2022, the underwater volcano of Home Reef has repeatedly emerged, adding hectares of land to the Tonga archipelago. Successive eruptions have allowed the island to reach an area ... cloud ...

Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride ...

Researchers have discovered a potentially younger and active volcanic hotspot beneath the Cook Islands' waters, prompting ...

A 2022 satellite photo shows smoke rising from a caldera on Tofua, highlighting the "looming threat" of the volcanic island.

The New Zealand ruling elite depicts itself as a benevolent colonial ruler defending the Cook Islands from the alleged “threat” posed by China. In fact, NZ imperialism is responsible for appalling ...

Find out the location of Fua'amotu International Airport on Tonga map and also find out airports near to Nuku ... IATA Code and ICAO Code of all airports in Tonga. Scroll down to know more about ...

Major changes are being proposed to electorates in the lower North Island resulting in one fewer seat in the area. The key ...

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed on Mar 26, 2025.

The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely related to the North American desert iguana, having separated about 34 ...

By Asher Elbein For decades, the native iguanas of Fiji and Tonga have presented an evolutionary ... reptilian transplants have ended up on two islands in the South Pacific, over 4,970 miles ...

This week, it makes far more sense to test an aspect of our tsunami system that didn’t perform very well last December — who ...