Pacific Ocean Conservation Funding: The Bezos Earth Fund announced over $25 million in new grants for ocean conservation across the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Vanuatu, supporting protection and sustainable management of more than 625,000 square miles and aiming to help countries protect at least 30% of marine areas by 2030. Climate Loss & Damage Media Access: Pacific media leaders adopted the Savusavu Loss and Damage Media Forum Declaration, calling for timely, transparent access to loss and damage information and stronger government and agency accountability, framed as climate justice for Pacific communities. Ocean Science Voyage: CSIRO will lead a major Pacific Ocean research voyage from late September to mid-December 2026, with Pacific researchers onboard, to track how the ocean is absorbing heat and carbon and how that is reshaping marine ecosystems. UNGA Climate Warnings: Pacific leaders used the UN General Assembly to stress that sea-level rise and climate impacts are already here, with Tuvalu urging climate finance at the scale needed to address unavoidable loss and damage. Nuclear Legacy & Marine Recovery: A look back at Bikini Atoll highlights how, decades after US nuclear testing, researchers found surprisingly thriving corals and marine life in the former blast crater.