Brian Diettrich, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
After an eight-year hiatus due to COVID, ‘FestPAC’ is back. With its unique combination of song, dance, history and politics, this year’s festival in Hawai'i is more relevant than ever.
La Niña typically means cooler, wetter conditions on average globally, but not everywhere, and not every time.
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After a year of record-breaking global heat with El Niño, will La Niña bring a reprieve? That depends on where you live and how you feel about hurricanes.
Pacific herring swimming through a bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana) forest on Vancouver Island, B.C.
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Kelp forests around the world, and in Canada, are under threat. New research sheds further light on the health, and resilience, of these crucial ecosystems.
In California, El Niño helped fuel a wet 2023 and early 2024.
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A new initiative is pinpointing areas in the world’s oceans that are key habitats for sharks and their relatives, so that governments can consider protecting these areas.
The author of a major new essay collection reflects on the shifting cultural and political realities in the Pacific, and why it remains an ‘unequal ocean’.
Acapulco’s beachfront condo towers were devastated by Hurricane Otis.
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The best science is not always the best engineering when it comes to building codes. It’s also a problem across the US, as an engineer who works on disaster resilience explains.
An Amazon poison frog (Ranitomeya amazonica).
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New research looks at how different species have managed to cross geographic barriers throughout history and whether their individual traits played a crucial role in these journeys.
The El Niño pattern stands out in the warm sea surface temperature anomalies in the Pacific in 2023.
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Exploring the often unseen, and poorly understood, nuances of diversity within coral reefs may prove essential for ensuring the long-term health of Earth’s oceans.
A healthy coral reef in Palau in the western Pacific Ocean.
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Forecasters warned of ‘potentially historic rainfall’ and ‘dangerous to locally catastrophic flooding.’ A hurricane scientist explains what El Niño, a heat dome and mountains have to do with the risk.
A natural weather event known as El Niño is underway in the Pacific Ocean.
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