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...

Ports in Developing Countries Are Crumbling—Massive Investment Is the Only Lifeline

At the International Association of Ports and Harbors World Ports Conference in Kobe, Japan, Masato Kanda, President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), delivered a stark warning: ports in developing countries are not peripheral to global...

Earth is getting darker and it’s changing the planet’s climate balance

For nearly twenty years, satellites have quietly gauged the flow of sunlight and heat through the Earth’s atmosphere. Today, scientists say those measurements indicate a disturbing trend — the Northern Hemisphere is steadily getting darker...

Justice, Tribe, and the Temptation of Selective Outrage

⬆️ COURT WATCH | Justice, Tribe, and the Temptation of Selective Outrage This week in Zambia’s courts, the conversation around justice has collided with politics again. The acquittal of Hibeene Mwiinga, the reopening of the Honey Bee corruption...

Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight back into space, and that's reshaping our climate

Earth has grown a full shade darker since 2001. In practical terms, the planet is reflecting less sunlight back into space than it used to, resulting in a change in climate. After analyzing satellite data, a team led by Norman Loeb at NASA’s...

Patriots-Bills film review: Inside Drake Maye’s big game and Pats’ best win in years

Before the Patriots pulled off one of their greatest upsets in recent franchise history, they achieved something just as rare. The Pats dictated terms to the reigning NFL MVP and a defense that historically has flummoxed them. Surveying their...

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...

Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Unveils First Line-Up Of Performers For Upcoming New Zealand Shows

Press Release – The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Todays announcement sees over 30 bands and cultural groups from more than 12 countries set to perform in The Heroes Who Made Us at Eden Park from 19-21 February. Celebrating 75 years with ‘The...

'Predator: Badlands' Turns the Monster Into the Hero, and 8 Other Savagely Exciting Things We Learned On Set

Back in 2022, Dan Trachtenberg shocked us all with his Predator prequel film Prey. That's not to discredit Trachtenberg's skill as a filmmaker. After all, he made 10 Cloverfield Lane, but the franchise's reputation had gone down the drain after...

Last call for Edinburgh residents to share their Murrayfield Memories as centenary celebrations beckon

From Doddie Weir and Gavin Hastings to Oasis and Taylor Swift, hundreds of fans have been sharing their memories of Scottish Gas Murrayfield as the stadium prepares for its centenary year. The Murrayfield Memories campaign, launched last month...

Student-led effort makes legal history in efforts to reshape global policy: 'It's a pretty grim thing to have to do'

"What I was pouring into my assignments was my own worries about the implications … on me as a person." by Drew JonesOctober 6, 2025 A group of law students at the University of the South Pacific (USP) has turned rising tides and failing climate...

Women’s volleyball drops pair of Big Ten bouts

Last weekend, No. 17 women’s volleyball played its first stretch of Big Ten matches at home, and for the first time this season, the Trojans looked fallible at Galen Center. They fell in a four-set match to unranked Indiana and got swept by No. 13...

Everyone wants answers for former rugby players like Lewis Moody but they are hard to come by | Andy Bull

Lewis Moody, 47, is the latest in a long line of players who has been diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease that may or may not be linked to his career in collision sport. Over the past decade I’ve interviewed more of these men, and their...

PNG at 50: Lesson in unity, peace, stewardship

WOMEN micro-entrepreneurs from across Fiji gathered in Suva last week to celebrate SPBD’s (South Pacific Business Development) annual Market Day. More than 50 women showcased their small businesses, including sewing, handicrafts, and food...

Turning Disaster Into Opportunity

When the Indian Ocean tsunami reached Myanmar’s coast in 2004, the Moken people had already sought safety on higher ground. They had no written records of tsunamis. What guided them were oral histories of an ancient wave — stories passed through...

Rikishi stands on business; feels WWE treated Solo Sikoa terribly as US Champion

Solo Sikoa was the United States Champion for 62 days, which didn't sit well with WWE Hall of Famer Rikishi. The real-life member of The Bloodline expressed his dismay on the matter after breaking his month-long break from his Off The Top podcast....

An incident in Abel Tasman

Medlands Beach in the Abel Tasman is named after Vern (Meddy) Medland—the man who blew up his bach with gelegnite. Not all the baches dotting the various bays of the Abel Tasman were legally built. Beginning in the late 1890s, they had typically...

‘He stuck, we up’: Walsh taunts Utoikamanu in brutal grand final take down

Titans make play for Bellamy for 2027 campaign The Gold Coast Titans have launched an audacious bid to try to lure Melbourne Storm grand final coach Craig Bellamy to the club from 2027. This column has been told that the Gold Coast Titans have...

The rejection of Hamas may have consigned armed resistance to history

When US President Donald Trump staked his name on a 20-point plan to end the war in Gaza and chart a path towards a new Middle East, pledging to personally oversee its implementation, he didn’t do so on a whim. The drafting of the plan and its...

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...