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The South Pacific is a rich collection of islands and archipelagos with a dizzying array of options for visitors. The easiest ...

A groundbreaking study reveals the earliest evidence of rice in the Pacific Islands, found in Guam’s Ritidian Beach Cave. It ...

In a new study published today in Science Advances, my colleagues and I have uncovered the earliest evidence of rice in the ...

The Japanese government is taking uncomfortable steps to prepare its citizens for a possible future war that its military ...

The domesticated rice was transported by the first islanders, who sailed 2,300 kilometres of open ocean from the Philippines ...

The Japanese government plans to begin subsidising long-term evacuation facilities in the Sakishima archipelago, at the ...

These islands were the first places in Remote Oceania reached by anyone, in this case inhabited for the first time by Malayo-Polynesian-speaking populations from islands in Southeast Asia.

A remote island chain in southern Japan has been rattled by more than 470 earthquakes since Saturday, the national weather ...

“We — the people of Solomon Islands and Vanuatu — have quietly protected more than 150,000 square km [58,000 mi2] of the ocean,” the website notes. “Our territorial seas … are protected.