Ghost roads' are increasingly damaging the pristine rainforest in Papua New Guinea, affecting the ecosystem tree by tree.

University of Michigan biologist Fred Kraus identified four new tree snake species in Papua New Guinea, highlighting the region's rich but understudied biodiversity. These discoveries, found on ...

A subalpine woolly rat was caught on camera for the first time in New Guinea's mountains. But he confirmed this by purchasing rats local hunters caught to examine the rats' stomach contents, which ...

A surprising find in Papua New Guinea reveals a mysterious creature with striking black eyes and a unique color transformation. Discovered on a remote island, this new species adds to the growing ...

It’s unclear, though, how Papua New Guinea’s deep-sea mining plans, despite community opposition, fit within the vision for the reserve.

The Metals Company is applying for permission from the Trump administration to mine for nickel and cobalt beneath a remote ...

As of June 2025, just 2.7% of the global ocean is classified as fully or highly protected, according to The Marine Protection Atlas, while total marine protection is only 8.4%.

Papua New Guinea’s public debt has increased significantly in recent years, leading to a high risk of debt distress and exposing significant gaps in the existing fiscal setting. This paper proposes to ...

Herpetology has long navigated through tangled terrain in Papua New Guinea, where species mislabeling and sparse sampling have clouded scientific understanding. But a recent revision has brought ...

Petronas in June 2024 farmed in for a 50% interest in Block PL 576 in the offshore Papua basin, which hosts the Mailu prospect. It represented the Malaysian energy giant's entry into PNG.

In early January 2025, 20 red-browed amazons (Amazona rhodocorytha), a parrot species that was extinct in the Brazilian state of Alagoas, began to be reintroduced into a thousand-hectare forest ...

A new study co-authored by BirdLife’s Chief Scientist Dr Stuart Butchart and published in Nature Reviews Biodiversity reveals ...