"Equatorial" was added to highlight its location near the equator and to differentiate it from other "Guinea" countries. Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea is a country in Oceania, located in the ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces ...

We've traveled as far as Antarctica and Papua New Guinea. It's not a cruise ... we stopped the ship on the equator. We placed one Zodiac, an inflatable boat, north of the equator and another ...

At least 30 of them had arrived in the bank after fleeing crackdowns on fishing violations in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea ... Near the equator, the water is a balmy 73.4 degrees to 82.4 ...

Papua New Guinea will "immediately" lift a ban on forest carbon credit schemes, the Pacific nation's climate minister told ...

The USGS issued a tsunami warning along the Papua New Guinea coastline after the temblor on Saturday morning local time.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.95 struck the New Britain Region in Papua New Guinea on Saturday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.

A strong, 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck in the Solomon Sea on Saturday, according to the United States Geological Survey. A “tsunami threat” was issued for some parts of the coast of Papua New ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.79 struck Papua New Guinea on Sunday, hitting at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the German Research Centre for Geosciences said.

Papua New Guinea's government has shut down Facebook, citing an increase in misinformation and pornography. Facebook is by far the most popular social media platform in the country, and the move ...

Papua New Guinea has blocked access to Facebook in what authorities call a "test" to limit hate speech, misinformation and pornography. The sudden ban, which started on Monday, has drawn criticism ...