Why Climate Visa Lottery Schemes Are Not the Answer
In July 2025, an astonishing 8,750 people of Tuvalu’s approximately 9,470 residents registered for a visa to Australia through the Falepili Mobility Pathway, a “climate visa” born out of the ...
Tag: pacific ocean
AUKUS Gets Raucous
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report and a happy belated birthday to John, who turned on Tuesday and promptly conducted an in-depth interview with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud ...
A Division of Labor Between Europe and Asia Won’t Work
This week it was reported that a senior Pentagon official ruffled his colleagues’ feathers by ordering controversial policy decisions, including cutting off aid to Ukraine, without White House approval. But, ...
Closing NATO’s Indo-Pacific Gap
The much-anticipated NATO summit in The Hague in late June accomplished its core objectives: securing a 5 percent defense pledge, managing U.S. President Donald Trump, and reaffirming a commitment to ...
USAID Cuts Could Transform U.S. Ties to Pacific Islands
In February, the ambassadors to the United States of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau met with U.S. officials to raise concerns about the rush of ...
Viral Coast Guard footage shows dramatic arrest of suspected drug smugglers in open ocean
A dramatic viral video from the Coast Guard shows service members completing a swift and precise drug interdiction against smugglers in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Members of the small-boat crew U.S. Coast ...
Viral Coast Guard video shows dramatic arrest of suspected drug smugglers in open ocean
A dramatic viral video from the Coast Guard shows service members completing a swift and precise drug interdiction against smugglers in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Members of the small-boat crew US Coast ...
Underwater volcano off Oregon coast ‘ballooning’ with lava — and set to erupt for first time since 2015
A submarine volcano 300 miles off the coast of Oregon could erupt for the first time since 2015, spewing “very fluid lava” into the sea where scientists were recently recording ...
USS Yorktown WWII shipwreck expedition leads to more incredible discoveries
A mysterious military vehicle located three miles underwater aboard the shipwrecked World War II-era USS Yorktown wasn’t the only shocking discovery made by researchers over the weekend. NOAA Ocean Exploration ...
