Deep sea mining threatens indigenous culture in Papua New Guinea

Tribal bloodshed shines spotlight on instability in strategically vital Papua New Guinea

A groundbreaking genetics study has revealed that the Ayta people of the Philippines carry the highest known levels of DNA from an extinct human subspecies ever recorded in any living population. This discovery is reshaping what scientists thought they knew about early human migration and interbreeding in Southeast Asia. Researchers analyzed over 2.3 million genetic variants from 118 ethnic groups across Philippines, making this one of the most comprehensive population genetics studies ever cond