Winds gusted to 83 mph at the Fuaʻamotu International Airport on Tonga’s main island, Tongatapu, ... After ravaging parts of Vanuatu and Fiji early this week, ...

SYDNEY, Aug 26 (Reuters) - China has sent police experts and equipment to the Pacific nation of Vanuatu in the midst of a political crisis that saw the Supreme Court rule the prime minister lost a ...

As climate change results in more extreme weather events, traditional knowledge can be a vital means of promoting the resilience of communities to natural disasters. The role of the nakamals in ...

The outage underscored just how precarious internet access can be for island nations and other remote communities. The fact it only took five weeks for Tonga to get back online is thanks to ...

The UN reported extensive damage to property on the western beaches of Tongatapu. Waves of up to 15 metres hit the area on Saturday. Your device may not support this visualisation.

A major, 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck in the Coral Sea on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake briefly prompted a tsunami alert for parts of Vanuatu, according ...

A giant boulder, made of limestone and mistaken for a hill, in Tongatapu, the largest island of Tonga in the South Pacific. Scientists calculated that the boulder weighed more than 1,300 tons.

Vanuatu earthquake death toll rises to 14 as rescuers search for survivors UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says one-third of the population affected by 7.3-magnitude quake.

In 2022, Tongatapu was hit by a 62.3 feet (19 m) tsunami triggered by the eruption of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga volcano, with water reaching as far as 0.62 miles (1 km) inland.

Archaeologists in the Kingdom of Tonga have uncovered the remnants of an ancient city on the island of Tongatapu. The incredible discovery, announced in 2024, overturns the chronology of early ...

That plume is coming from a seamount located 33 kilometers (20 miles) from Tonga’s main island of Tongatapu. The images above were captured on January 27, 2017, by the Operational Land Imager ...