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Australia's Pacific role challenged in climate row
Aug 19, 2019 (AFP)
It comes after Australia was accused of muzzling leaders who wanted to use last week's Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu to issue a global call for action on clim...
Singapore to bolster coastal defences against rising sea levels: PM
Aug 18, 2019 (AFP)
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong described climate change as "one of the gravest challenges facing humankind" and said the Southeast Asian country is already feel...
Fiji PM labels Australia PM 'very insulting' after Pacific standoff
Aug 17, 2019 (AFP)
Bainimarama accused Morrison of heavy-handed tactics after the Pacific Island Forum wrapped up in Tuvalu Thursday with pro-coal Canberra sharply at odds with is...
Tears and shouting as Australia dilutes Pacific climate warning
Aug 16, 2019 (AFP)
The annual Pacific Island Forum wrapped up in Tuvalu late Thursday with Australia and the group's 17 other members sharply at odds, potentially undermining Canb...
Carp deaths at Schweitzer's Gabonese home worry villagers
Aug 15, 2019 (AFP)
The French-German doctor and philosopher famously had a pet pelican that he had saved, and fed the bird on the prized local fish. But the alarm has sounded afte...
Countries push to protect sharks, rays
Aug 15, 2019 (AFP)
"Sharks and rays are pretty much unmanaged still in fisheries around the world and are disappearing before our eyes," Luke Warwick of the Wildlife Conservation ...
Detention basins could catch more than stormwater
Aug 15, 2019 (SPX)
Speaking at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Louisville, Kentucky, she explained that she and colleagues at Cornell University looked ...
Navy requests proposals for Large Unmanned Surface Vehicle
Aug 15, 2019 (UPI)
The Naval Sea Systems Command on Wednesday issued the RFP, with plans to award multiple conceptual designs for the LUSV, one of three new types of unmanned vehi...
Samoa PM plays down fears over China in Pacific
Aug 15, 2019 (AFP)
While Canberra and Washington fear China's long-term ambition is a military base in the Pacific, Malielegaoi said he was more interested in the practical aid Be...
Water crisis grips US city after lead contamination
Aug 15, 2019 (AFP)
Thousands of people in Newark, a city in New Jersey with a predominantly black and Hispanic population, have been told to drink only bottled water after the Env...
We use satellites to measure water scarcity
Aug 14, 2019 (SPX)
About half of these people live in sub-Saharan Africa. In fact, in more than 30 African countries, fewer than 20% of the people have access to safe drinking wat...
France outlaws pulse fishing ahead of EU-wide ban
Aug 14, 2019 (AFP)
French fishermen have long railed against pulse fishing by their Dutch counterparts, calling it unfair competition that leads to unsustainable stock depletions....
Ardern backs Pacific on climate, puts heat on Australia
Aug 14, 2019 (AFP)
Australia's Scott Morrison arrived at a meeting of Pacific island leaders in Tuvalu with Canberra's regional leadership in question amid intense scrutiny of his...
Study examines a million corals one by one in urgent call to save reefs
Aug 13, 2019 (SPX)
Now, 13 years after that foray, she has contributed one of the largest amounts of data to a landmark study on how to save coral reefs in the Indian and Pacific ...
Cramped and basic: Greta Thunberg's voyage to New York
Aug 13, 2019 (AFP)
But the 16-year-old Swedish environmental activist is ready to take the only transport she can that produces hardly any emissions to get to a UN climate summit ...
Australia offers climate funding to Pacific islands
Aug 13, 2019 (AFP)
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the funding, drawn from Australia's existing international aid budget, would help Pacific island nations invest in renewable ...
Human impact on oceans doubled during last decade
Aug 13, 2019 (UPI)
The biggest human impact on the world's oceans is climate change. Human-caused climate change is causing the oceans to get warmer and more acidic. As warmer tem...
Australian coal use an 'existential threat' to islands: Fiji PM
Aug 12, 2019 (AFP)
Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said Australia should recognise the threat climate change poses to Pacific island nations. "I appeal to Australia to do everyth...
Largest-of-its-kind coral study offers plan to save the planet's reefs
Aug 12, 2019 (UPI)
The international team of scientists, including researchers with conservation groups, government agencies, and universities, identified three main strategies th...
WWII Pacific battlegrounds now site of US-China tug of war
Aug 12, 2019 (AFP)
Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands, whose territories stretch thousands of kilometres across the Pacific, have been the recipien...
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