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Changing climate threatens Easter Island's mighty moai19 Mar 18 - Rising sea levels are eroding Easter Island and its many archaeological sites, including its iconic moai statues and village remains. |
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NZ and island nations pay climate fee on time30 Jan 18 - New Zealand and five small states in the area are among the handful of countries that have paid this year’s dues to the United Nations’ climate change work. |
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Fiji summit calls for action on climate migration11 Dec 17 - Civil society leaders from more than 100 countries meeting in Suva have called for action on climate-induced displacement. |
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Rising tides lap at the Pacific's dome of poison29 Nov 17 - Rising seas caused by climate change are seeping inside a United States nuclear waste dump on a remote and low-lying Pacific atoll. |
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It's not a done deal, low-lying islands can shape a future20 Nov 17 - While the plight of low-lying Pacific islands should not be ignored, it is just as damaging to assume that their fate is already sealed. |
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Fiji told it must spend billions to adapt to climate change13 Nov 17 - Fiji must spend an amount equivalent to its entire yearly gross domestic product over the next 10 years to counter the challenges of a changing climate. |
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Risk growing for Pacific islands, says study10 Nov 17 - Many nations have become less vulnerable to natural disasters ranging from cyclones to earthquakes because of improved preparedness, but Pacific island states remain most at risk, a new study shows. |
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LOST LANDS: Rising seas washed away Pacific history9 Nov 17 - The story of the now-vanished Micronesian island of Nahlapenlohd holds some valuable lessons about recent climate change in the western Pacific. |
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Pacific Islanders call on Australia not to fund Adani2 Nov 17 - Pacific Islanders whose homes face eradication by rising sea levels have called on Australia to not fund the Adani Carmichael coalmine, as a new report reveals the worsening impact of climate change... |
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KIRIBATI CRISIS: A long time waiting for the tide to turn25 Oct 17 - The 33 islands of Kiribati are under threat from climate change. But the islanders have not given up hope. |
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NOT GUILTY: Easter Island falsely blamed for own demise16 Oct 17 - Rapa Nui (Easter Island) has become the ultimate parable for humankind’s selfishness; a moral tale of the dangers of environmental destruction. But new research paints a very different picture. |
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Ministry denies cutting climate aid to Pacific9 Oct 17 - New Zealand is denying an accusation that it is cutting its climate aid to the Pacific. |
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Tsunami wreckage serves as liferafts for invasive species3 Oct 17 - Hundreds of species were carried across the Pacific to North America by debris — estimated to weigh a total of nearly 1.5 million tonnes — that was swept out to sea after the 2011 Japan earthquake. |
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VIVA VIKA: Giant rat lives in trees and eats coconuts29 Sep 17 - A fabled giant rat known as the vika is the first new Solomon Islands rodent to be described in more than 80 years. |
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Easter Island becomes one of world's largest marine parks11 Sep 17 - One of the world’s largest marine protection areas has been created off the coast of Easter Island. |
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Tributes pour in for islands' climate hero Tony de Brum24 Aug 17 - Friends and colleagues remember Tony de Brum as a fighter for nuclear justice and a safe climate future, after his death in Majuro aged 72. |
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Islands need better data to manage climate losses22 Aug 17 - In the Pacific and the Caribbean, island nations are already hit by climate change, but lack tools to measure the damage for leverage in international negotiations. |
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Australia just doesn’t get Pacific Islands' challenges10 Aug 17 - Australia can help Pacific Island communities in a much wider range of ways than simply responding to disasters such as tropical cyclones. |
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