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International: Pacific

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Rising tides lap at the Pacific's dome of poison

29 Nov 2017

Rising seas caused by climate change are seeping inside a United States nuclear waste dump on a remote and low-lying Pacific atoll.

It's not a done deal, low-lying islands can shape a future

20 Nov 2017

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.

Fiji told it must spend billions to adapt to climate change

13 Nov 2017

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.

Risk growing for Pacific islands, says study

10 Nov 2017

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.

LOST LANDS: Rising seas washed away Pacific history

9 Nov 2017

The story of the now-vanished Micronesian island of Nahlapenlohd holds some valuable lessons about recent climate change in the western Pacific.

Pacific Islanders call on Australia not to fund Adani

2 Nov 2017

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 across Oceania.

KIRIBATI CRISIS: A long time waiting for the tide to turn

25 Oct 2017

The 33 islands of Kiribati are under threat from climate change. But the islanders have not given up hope.

NOT GUILTY: Easter Island falsely blamed for own demise

16 Oct 2017

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.

Ministry denies cutting climate aid to Pacific

9 Oct 2017

New Zealand is denying an accusation that it is cutting its climate aid to the Pacific.

Tsunami wreckage serves as liferafts for invasive species

3 Oct 2017

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.

VIVA VIKA: Giant rat lives in trees and eats coconuts

29 Sep 2017

A fabled giant rat known as the vika is the first new Solomon Islands rodent to be described in more than 80 years.

Easter Island becomes one of world's largest marine parks

11 Sep 2017

One of the world’s largest marine protection areas has been created off the coast of Easter Island.

Tributes pour in for islands' climate hero Tony de Brum

24 Aug 2017

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.

Islands need better data to manage climate losses

22 Aug 2017

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.

Australia just doesn’t get Pacific Islands' challenges

10 Aug 2017

Australia can help Pacific Island communities in a much wider range of ways than simply responding to disasters such as tropical cyclones.

There are ways we can save island nations from rising seas

28 Jul 2017

As sea levels rise, many island states could soon be annihilated and their residents forced to flee, rendering extinct their societies.

Fiji COP presidency must not fail climate victims

20 Jul 2017

Despite warm words about protecting the vulnerable, the island presidency of this year’s UN climate talks is showing no urgency on “loss and damage”.

Rising seas threaten scores of Pacific species with extinction

19 Jul 2017

The Chuuk flying fox. The Black-spotted Cuscus. The Fijian crested iguana. The Mariana skink. The greater monkey-faced bat. Poncelet’s giant rat. They live on islands in the Pacific and they are facing extinction.

How a shipping firm took control of a country’s UN mission

7 Jul 2017

How the climate-threatened Marshall Islands came to be represented at UN shipping talks by a private company based in Virginia, 11,000km away.

Voreqe Bainimarama

Pacific nations push for Paris pact commitments

6 Jul 2017

A commitment by rich nations to the Paris Agreement and an end to fossil-fuel development were the two major issues to come out of a pan-Pacific climate meeting in Fiji this week.

Open your doors to climate refugees, Fiji tells US

4 Jul 2017

Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama has called on the US to open its borders and offer a permanent home to the people of the Marshall Islands threatened by rising seas.

Paris agreement only way to save coral reefs

28 Jun 2017

Greater emissions reductions and delivering on the Paris climate agreement are now “the only opportunity” to save coral reefs the world over from decline.

US exiting climate pact will hurt small islands

26 Jun 2017

To small island nations where the land juts just above the rising seas, the US pulling out of the Paris global warming pact makes the future seem as fragile and built on hope as a sand castle.

Coral reefs hold the history of the seas

21 Jun 2017

Much like tree rings, coral reefs can tell stories about how environmental conditions have changed over time.

NZ gives Fiji million-dollar handout for UN talks

22 May 2017

New Zealand is giving Fiji $1.3 million and the services of our top climate ambassador to help to chair international climate negotiations later this year.

Is Pacific climate message missing the God factor?

18 May 2017

Well-meaning nations who find their Pacific aid projects don't work out might find the reason, in part, is the sidelining of God.

38 million pieces of plastic waste found on Pacific island

17 May 2017

Henderson Island, part of the Pitcairn group, is covered by 18 tonnes of plastic – the highest density of anthropogenic debris recorded anywhere in the world

OPINION: We must plan for climate refugees

10 May 2017

What will New Zealand do when 12,000 climate refugees from Tuvalu arrive on its doorstep?

Global warming could speed up if the Pacific Ocean gets cranky

10 May 2017

Conditions in the Pacific Ocean over the coming decades will determine how fast we get to 1.5deg global warming.

World Bank presses NZ on climate refugees

9 May 2017

The World Bank says New Zealand should accept more migrants from the Pacific to pre-empt a flood of climate refugees.

Whales could help to save Pacific from carbon pollution

13 Apr 2017

If conservation efforts pay off, whales could help Pacific islands to meet their emissions reductions targets.

Tonga and ADB launch climate change fund

1 Mar 2017

The Tongan government and the Asian Development Bank have launched the island group's first climate change trust fund.

Look what they found 5000m down on the Pacific seafloor

14 Feb 2017

Scientists have discovered “extraordinary” levels of toxic pollution in the most remote and inaccessible place on the planet – the 10km deep Mariana trench in the Pacific.

How climate change plays havoc with Pacific weather

10 Feb 2017

Global warming has already increased the risk of major disruptions to Pacific rainfall, according to new research by Australian scientists.

PACIFIC PROBLEM: Carbon cuts will not settle seas

24 Jan 2017

Even supposing the world does make dramatic reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, the fate of the small island states remains uncertain.

Come see Pacific for yourself, MP tells Trump

21 Dec 2016

A New Zealand MP is challenging United States president-elect Donald Trump to come to the Pacific and see the impacts of climate change for himself.

Green Climate Fund gives millions to help Pacific

19 Dec 2016

The Green Climate Fund board has approved eight funding proposals worth $US315 million ($NZ452m) at a meeting in Samoa.

Dear Green Climate Fund, Samoa needs you

13 Dec 2016

The board of the Green Climate Fund this week is meeting in the Samoan capital Apia. Here, the country’s ambassador to the UN outlines his hopes.

Fiji turns beauty queen into climate queen

7 Dec 2016

Miss Pacific Islands 2016, 23-year-old law graduate Anne Dunn, has been appointed Fiji’s ambassador for climate change and the environment.

Tesla powers entire Pacific island using solar energy

25 Nov 2016

American automaker and energy storage company Tesla Motors has powered the Pacific island Ta’u almost entirely from solar energy.

Japan backs Apia climate change centre

28 Oct 2016

A Pacific Climate Change Centre, jointly funded by the Governments of Japan and Samoa as well as the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program, will be based in Apia.

Low-lying coral atolls like the Solomon Islands are vulnerable

Asia and Pacific must spearhead climate fight

13 Sep 2016

Asia and the Pacific has been rocked by intense and unstable weather, bringing into even greater focus the need to build resilience against climate change.

Rachael Le Mesurier

We're on the wrong tack in Pacific, says report

7 Sep 2016

New Zealand’s policy of helping Pacific nations to prepare for the impacts of climate change by financing renewable energy projects is under fire.

Cook Islands quietly does the climate business

5 Sep 2016

Three countries have just ratified the Paris Agreement on climate change – China, the United States and the Cook Islands.

Islands fail to agree on plan to protect tuna

5 Sep 2016

Pacific island states have failed to strike a deal to protect shrinking supplies of tuna and adopt cutbacks following a regional conference, officials said, sparking condemnation from conservationists.

Su’a William Sio

How NZ could plug loophole in climate refugee law

31 Aug 2016

New Zealand is being urged to form bilateral arrangements with its Pacific neighbours to take climate refugees until a hole in international law is plugged.

Bennett: We can look after the Pacific

9 Aug 2016

The climate change minister says New Zealand’s post-2020 emissions reduction target is sufficient to help to protect Pacific nations from the impacts of climate change.

Fiji to spend millions on coastline protection

3 Aug 2016

THE World Bank says Fiji will spend close to $700 million by 2040 on climate change adaptation projects for the protection of coastline communities.

Can Nauru bounce back from mining boom and bust?

18 Jul 2016

When most of us hear of Nauru we tend to think of immigration detention, or perhaps of the environmentally ruinous legacy of the island nation’s ill-fated phosphate mining boom.

Su'a William Sua

PACIFIC PLEA: NZ should join island nations' fight

15 Jul 2016

New Zealand should join forces with its island neighbours preparing to take bold action against fossil fuel producers, says Labour’s Pacific climate change spokesman.

Australia
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How bad can climate damage get? Worse than you imagine

Thu 26 Jun 2025

How bad can climate damage get? Worse than you imagine, if Australians’ recent experience of more extreme weather and natural disasters — driven by a hotter climate — are an indication, because the past is no longer a reliable guide to the future.

United States
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US government cuts key data used in hurricane forecasting

Today 10:30am

Weather experts are warning that hurricane forecasts will be severely hampered by the upcoming cutoff of key data from U.S. Department of Defense satellites, the latest Trump administration move with potential consequences for the quality of forecasting.

China
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Floods swamp cities in Southwest China with more storms due

Thu 26 Jun 2025

Citizens in Guizhou and other parts of southern China have been swamped by days of record-breaking rainfall as the East Asia monsoon kicked into high gear over the past week.

Europe
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Next EU climate target to allow carbon offsets from 2036, draft shows

Today 10:30am

The European Commission will permit countries to outsource a portion of their climate efforts to poorer countries from 2036, according to a draft proposal.

United Kingdom
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UK can reach net zero by 2050, climate report finds

Thu 26 Jun 2025

Climate Change Committee says current targets could be met provided country takes ‘steps forward’ to achieve them.

Canada
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Is Mark Carney turning his back on climate action?

23 Jun 2025

The G7 summit in Alberta, hosted by Prime Minister Mark Carney, has ended with only passing mention of fighting climate change, including a statement on wildfires that is silent on the pressing need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Asia
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Pakistan slams climate ‘injustice’ as deadly floods hit country again

Today 10:30am

Pakistan’s climate minister says country facing ‘crisis of injustice’ as more deadly flooding and extreme weather events hit the country.

Antarctic/Arctic
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I just returned from Antarctica: climate change isn’t some far-off problem – it’s here and hitting hard

13 May 2025

Antarctica is often viewed as the last truly remote place on Earth – frozen, wild and untouched. But is it really as untouched as it seems?

Africa
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Congo death toll hits 77 after extreme weather brings floods and sinks boats, 107 remain missing

18 Jun 2025

Authorities in Congo said the death toll following devastating floods and separate boat accidents has reached 77, with more than 100 people missing.

South America
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‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future

Today 10:30am

Carlos Nobre, who has fought for decades to save the rainforest, says up to 70% of it could be lost if a tipping point is reached.

United Nations
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How UN climate negotiations can end fossil fuel-industry influence

Today 10:30am

COMMENT: Climate COPs remain alarmingly exposed to lobbyists, unlike most global health and anti-corruption bodies that have safeguards to limit interference.

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