Ministers from six Pacific island nations called for an end to new oil, gas, and coal projects and for a treaty that would govern their phaseout. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

The island nation of Palau says a tanker that recently loaded Venezuelan crude was using a false signal to disguise its identity, potentially putting the Pacific country in the crosshairs of U.S ...

On Rennell, an impoverished Pacific island, mining had already scarred the land. Now an oil spill has polluted the water and threatens a World Heritage site. The Hong Kong-flagged Solomon Trader ...

The UN Climate Change Conference, COP29, held in Baku, Azerbaijan from November 11-22, took place as 2024 heads towards the hottest year in human history. Temperatures are expected to be 1.5 ºC ...

An environmental disaster is unfolding in the Pacific after a large ship ran aground and began leaking oil next to a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Solomon Islands.

Pacific Biodiesel began harvesting its 14-acre field of sunflowers Friday. The combine, purchased from a Northern California family farm, reaps, threshes and winnows oil-rich sunflower seeds from ...

(Bloomberg) -- Crude shipments from Russia’s Sakhalin Island projects aren’t being discharged after the tankers carrying them were sanctioned by the US. About 6.3 million barrels of Pacific ...

The Marshall Islands, a country near the Equator in the Pacific Ocean, is the nation most dependent on oil. In 2016, the Marshall Islands became one of the leading destinations for U.S. crude ...

The world’s islands rely heavily on pricey, polluting diesel oil for electricity. But now some are turning to native resources of sun, water, breeze, and hot underground rock for energy.

A historic first delivery of biodiesel fuel made from sunflower oil to the Schofield Generating Station on the U.S. Army base ...

To prevent this worst-case scenario, Kofe and other representatives from six Pacific island states and a growing number of Caribbean nations known as the 6PAC+ Alliance are urgently calling upon ...