Plenty of countries all over the planet claim island ... The United States' biggest island chain is well-known, but Hawaii isn't the only island territory in the US. So where are all of the ...

Tuvalu is one of the smallest countries in the world, its nine tiny islands covering just 10 square miles combined.

His focus is on security and defense issues in the Western Pacific region ... Experts have told Newsweek that the island chain strategy, which was formulated by the United States during the ...

Growing ties between China and the Cook Islands present challenges for Australia and New Zealand’s influence in the region ...

and on a balmy afternoon in January 2022 it began blasting its insides into the sky above this Pacific island chain with a force unmatched in recent history. People thousands of miles away heard ...

Here's how this South Pacific nation is preserving their paradise for generations for come. Landing on Rarotonga, the largest of the Cook Islands chain felt like stepping back in time. Gazing out ...

To address these issues, the Pacific will need to pursue strategies that drive investment. Growth in Pacific island countries decelerated in 2023 after a historically high growth rate of 9.1% in 2022, ...

Since the 1980s Pacific leaders have scolded, cajoled, pleaded with, and tried to shame the major carbon-polluting countries over climate change. The islands are ants and the industrialized ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity yawns out in front of you when you stand on the pale sands of this tiny Pacific island ... up in the food chain.

Eleven Pacific Island countries are members of the World Bank and have a combined population of about 2.3 million people, scattered across an area equivalent to 15% of the globe’s surface.