Last week New Zealand’s foreign affairs minister Winston Peters announced an aid program that will deliver two billion dollars (NZ$) to nations in the south...

Across the Pacific, where so many already depend on aid to survive, governments are nervously planning how to best fight the looming threat of hunger.

The UN Environment Program estimates that there are 46,000 pieces of plastic litter in every square mile of ocean, and a swirling vortex of trash twice the size of...