A giant whale stole the show at the Summer Olympic Games, shooting out of the water as athletes competed in women's surfing semi-finals on the French Pacific island of Tahiti last month. It is for ...

French Polynesia, with its strategic location and massive EEZ, will play a key role in France’s Indo-Pacific policy. In July 2021, French President Emmanuel Macron visited French Polynesia for the ...

French Polynesia has extended marine safeguards to protect essential aquatic ecosystems. According to Mongabay, French ...

Asia Is Racing to the Arctic, But It’s Not Easy Wang Chen, head of Tahiti Nui Ocean Foods, a subsidiary of China’s Tianrui group, met with Tahitian top leaders in mid-August 2017 to announce the ...

I didn’t know it was possible to cry underwater. It was one of the many unexpected experiences French Polynesia left me with. Before the male humpback searching for a mate appeared, I heard the ...

This story about surfing in Tahiti is part of How Paris Moves, a series of dispatches about communities and social change in France through the lens of the 2024 Summer Olympics. Read more here. When ...

WASHINGTON - Beginning more than a millennium ago, intrepid seafarers traversed vast Pacific Ocean expanses in double-hulled sailing canoes to reach the far-flung islands of Polynesia, the planet's ...

How did the Polynesian peoples come to live on the far-flung islands of the Pacific? The question has intrigued researchers for centuries. Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl brought the topic to public ...

How did the Polynesian peoples come to live on the far-flung islands of the Pacific? The question has intrigued researchers for centuries. Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl brought the topic to public ...