The Cook Islands government will allow miners to prospect for minerals on its seabed within the coming financial year. Officials justify the decision partly on the need to ease the country’s economic ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The Cook Islands’ main harbor is a small indentation in the island of Rarotonga, ...

As the Cook Islands embraces the burgeoning industry, deep-sea mining companies are becoming part of the community’s day-to-day. Can the country avoid the mistakes of resource extraction’s past? By ...

The Cook Islands should be allowed to “make their own choices” and “have a right to their own future development” in terms of seabed mining, according to former Australian Prime Minister Scott ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The condition of several small islands in Indonesia’s Riau Islands province that were damaged by mining has once again drawn public attention after images went viral on social ...

The current unilateral approach may secure minerals in the short term, but it will erode the Pacific partnerships and ...

While most Pacific islands have escaped the worst of COVID-19, a cornerstone of their economies, tourism, has taken a big hit. By June 2020, visitor arrivals in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu had ...

What the Pacific Island nations lack in landmass, they make up for in territorial waters. For instance, Kiribati ranks 172nd in the world for its land mass, but ranks 12th for the size of its ...