Opinion: Christian nationalists could decide tomorrow I’m no longer white

Carl Luna recalls how Italian-American Catholics were once deemed nonwhite and non-Christian. (File photo by Ken Stone/Times of San Diego) The worldview of American white Christian nationalists is simple: America was meant to be and was at its...

Australia’s emissions reduction targets ‘a bit of a cop out’, says Pacific climate advocate

As Australia's prime minister prepares to spruik the countries new climate targets at the UN General Assembly in New York, a Pacific climate activist says these are "a bit of a cop out". Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is addressing the United...

Amelia Earhart Mystery Deepens: Trump Orders Release of Files on Aviator's Fate and Missing Plane

US President Donald Trump announced on 26 September 2025 that he has ordered the declassification and release of all government files related to Amelia Earhart, the aviation pioneer who vanished in 1937. Trump said his decision was motivated by...

Trump to declassify files over aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart

Stuart Lau ShareSave Amelia Earhart at Long Beach, California, with her plane Donald Trump said he would order his administration to declassify secret government records related to the 1937 disappearance of the US aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart....

Rising sea levels force Pacific communities to seek urgent climate change solutions

SUVA, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Pacific Island communities are increasingly being forced to relocate as the impacts of climate change worsen, yet many governments in the region still lack clear relocation policies to guide these difficult transitions....

Landmark ICJ climate ruling must be turned into concrete action on shipping

John Taukave is technical and cultural adviser to Pacific delegations of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a Rotuman performing artist and a doctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam. When a little-known UN agency meets in...

On Road to Belem, Pacific countries raise their voice on 1.5…

Pacific countries at the forefront of the climate crisis, described as a “ticking time bomb”, have vowed that their One Pacific Voice on keeping 1.5 alive, is heard loud and clear at the Thirtieth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework...

Purdue University Team Nears Possible Earhart Plane Site

InkFreeNews.com Posted Oct 07, 2025 Updated: Oct 6, 2025 @ 3:29 PM A satellite image shows the Taraia Object in a lagoon on Nikumaroro Island. Photo from Rick Pettigrew, Archeological Legacy Institute. News Release WEST LAFAYETTE — A Purdue...

Chinese Pressure Shreds Taiwan’s Relationship With South Africa

(Bloomberg) -- Just months after Oliver Liao arrived in Pretoria as Taiwan’s de facto ambassador, South Africa began a campaign to downgrade its relationship with the island — thrusting him into the epicenter of a geopolitical drama. While South...

Keeping Coastal Communities at the Heart of the Blue Economy

Image Source: Getty Images This is part of the essay series: Sagarmanthan Edit 2025. For coastal communities across the globe, the ocean is not only a source of income and food security–it is the foundation of their culture, identity, and way of...

 Pacific Islands Forum’s exclusion of great powers and its consequences

Pacific island leaders gather in Honiara, Solomon Islands for the 54th Pacific Islands Forum Leadership Meeting in September. Photo courtesy of the FSM government These Islands By Robert Underwood In the prelude to the September 2025 Pacific...

Why loss and damage matter in the Pacific

For many Pacific Island nations, climate change isn’t a distant threat or an abstract statistic – it’s an everyday reality reshaping homes, traditions, and futures. Rising sea levels, coastal erosion, increasing temperatures and severe weather...

Australia signs defence pact with Papua New Guinea to counter Chinese threat

Australia and Papua New Guinea have signed a defence pact, widely viewed as an attempt to strengthen regional security against China’s growing influence in the Pacific. Under the Pukpuk Treaty – meaning “crocodile” in pidgin – Papua New Guinea...

Daylight saving is here again (for some). What’s it all about?

Save Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size Hang on, what just happened? If you live in Victoria, NSW, South Australia or Tasmania, you’ve...

VUVALE PARTNERSHIP | A beacon of unity

Fiji’s economic prosperity, its environmental health, and way of life are inextricably tied to the sea. The opening of the new Vuvale Maritime Essential Services Centre in Lami on Friday (October 3) will help Fiji protect and safeguard its ocean...

UN must adapt to Blue Pacific, not the other way around...

Pacific leaders took the 2050 Strategy to the UN, calling for climate justice, fair finance, and security defined by peace and solidarity. By Renate Rivers Pacific Island leaders addressed the United Nations General Assembly’s (UNGA) 80th session...

COP is 'heartbreak' for the Pacific. Here is why they still want to host

Joseph Sikulu's long-haul journey home to the Pacific has felt fruitless after the recent world climate talks. It has become a "heartbreaking" exercise seeing the annual United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP) summit achieve so little of...

Pacific to IMO: Fast-track the Net-Zero fund or fail

Pacific leaders are calling for the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to fast-track setting up its Net-Zero Fund (NZF), warning that without urgent action the Organisation will fail to deliver on its own commitment to contribute to a Just...

'To eat bitterness': In the Pacific, there is 'old' Chinese and 'new' Chinese

Golden, serene, and its belly polished smooth by tens of thousands of hands. This Chinese-style statue — the Laughing Buddha — absorbed the touch of students before exams, brides before weddings, and ministers before late-night negotiations. For...

We are blessed

The black, green, and gold of our national flag is our declaration that the sun shines, the land is green, and the people are strong and creative. At the time of our Independence the black, green, and gold of our national flag symbolised our...