Sovereignty: The Common-Sense Solution For America And Puerto Rico

After over a century of U.S. rule, Puerto Rico’s colonial status has become a shame for both countries. It goes against America’s founding principles, skews and undermines Puerto Rico’s economy, and maintains a political system based on dependence...

Slowing climate change by using aerosols to block sunlight? Maybe not such a good idea

Holy sun-repellant spray, Batman! Could injecting billions of kilograms of sunlight-dimming aerosols into the atmosphere save the planet from industrial climate destruction? Or is that just Joker-level insanity? A new Columbia Climate School...

The European Union and the Pacific Community boost border security in Marshall Islands with advanced X-Ray technology

Photo: European Union Ambassador Barbara Plinkert and Marshall Islands Minister Anthony Muller, key handover of the Airport X-ray machine The Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) has received a state-of-the-art X-ray machine to reinforce border...

UAMS Presents Research Findings Involving Marshallese Community at Town Hall

German unis return human remains to Marshall Islands

Their return to their place of origin marked the first time that remains have been returned to the republic in the north-western Pacific. In return, the Marshall Islands delegation presented those attending the ceremony with hair decorations in...

Why Aerial Footage From 1938 Might Be Final Clue In Solving The Amelia Earhart Plane Mystery

On July 2, 1937, the famed aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan took off in a twin-engine Lockheed 10-E Electra from Lae, New Guinea, headed for Howland Island, 2,600 miles east across the Pacific Ocean where they planned to...

The US will launch an ICBM across the Pacific — and no, it has nothing to do with Trump's new nuclear testing plans

The US Air Force is conducting a routine test of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile. The last Minuteman III test was in May. It flew over the Pacific toward a target in the Marshall Islands. The test comes as the Trump...

Technology fix for outer islands

GIFF JOHNSON A major new educational program is expected to connect educators and students on every atoll and island in the country to step-up the use of technology in education. The new program, known as the Rebbelib Project, will roll out...

List of Island Countries in the World

Island Countries: Our planet is home to many unique and fascinating countries, and among them, island nations hold a special place. An island country is a nation that is surrounded by water and does not share land borders with any other country....

What’s at stake for the COP30 global climate summit

Progress toward global climate goals may seem unlikely since the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases – the U.S. – will not send an official government delegation to COP30, the annual UN climate talks set for Nov. 10-21 in Brazil. Still,...

Trump wants more nuclear weapons and protection against them

Chris Walker reports on “Trump’s Push to Resume Nuclear Weapons Testing Rests on Falsehoods,” November 3, 2025 (https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-push-to-resume-nuclear-weapons-testing-rests-on-falsehoods). Walker is a news writer at Truthout,...

Trump wants more US nuclear weapons tests: What does that mean?

US President Donald Trump has said he’s instructed the Defense Department to start testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with rivals such as Russia and China. It’s unclear whether he means detonating nuclear warheads, which would reverse...

UOG alumna awarded dual scholarships to research Indigenous resistance in the Pacific

Makaelah Blas didn’t expect things to unfold quite this way. The University of Guam alumna applied to just one doctoral program - Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand - and gave herself only two weeks in June to assemble an application...

What’s the Point of a Global Climate Target?

On a December night in Paris in 2015, the impossible happened: Nearly 200 countries agreed to try to limit global temperature rise to below 1.5 degrees Celsius, to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Unfortunately, that target — a key part...

Hirono urges Interior Secretary to restore funding for environmental research and conservation program

US Sen. Mazie K. Hirono. Photo courtesy US Sen. Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaiʻi), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, sent a letter to US Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum urging him to reconsider the Trump...

The US will launch an ICBM across the Pacific — and no, it has nothing to do with Trump's new nuclear testing plans

The US is going to be test-firing an intercontinental ballistic missile across the Pacific Ocean this week, but not because of President Donald Trump's confusing new nuclear testing plans. The unarmed Minuteman III ICBM test is a routine way for...

Small businesses play a critical role in economic resilience,’ says new Palau SBDC director

By: Faith Chen PALAU — “Small businesses play a critical role in economic esilience and community well-being,” said Eustoria Borja, newly appointed director of the Palau Small Business Development Center (SBDC). The Pacific Islands Small Business...

Climate finance crisis: Poor nations paying for world's inaction

As the planet heats up, money to protect the world’s poorest is drying up. The United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Adaptation Gap Report 2025 paints a grim picture: the world is spending less on climate adaptation just when it needs to...

The Pacific Islands Challenge

As the strategic rivalry between China and the United States intensifies across the Indo-Pacific, the Taiwan Strait is often seen as the key flash point. Yet whether the regional balance holds or tips into conflict will also be shaped by choices...

Trump announces resumption of US nuclear weapons testing

The mushroom cloud from the world’s first test of a thermonuclear device (hydrogen bomb), over Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands on November 1, 1952. [AP Photo/Los Alamos National Laboratory]On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced the...