The governor of Papua New Guinea's West New Britain province is urging people to take heed of weather and marine alerts, ...

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A strong 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck near Papua New Guinea on Saturday morning local time, according to the U.S.

Thousands of dead fish are washing ashore and people are falling ill too, as officials investigate possible sources of contamination.

The Dutch colonisers of West Papua thought the island of New Guinea looked like a bird, so called its northwestern tip Vogelkop (Bird’s Head). In what is now Indonesian-occupied West Papua, Paniai, an ...

Papua New Guinea is home to thousands of species — many still waiting to be discovered. Paper replicas of Bulbophyllum levyae, a rare orchid species native to the island of New Guinea, made for T by ...