“Our ocean is not a nuclear dumpster” – USP students call for a nuclear...
By Nic Maclellan
Hundreds of students at the University of the South Pacific in Suva rallied to remember nuclear survivors around the region on...
While Australia fights for coal, the Pacific fights for its survival
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We in the Pacific have been raising the alarm about the impacts of climate change for decades, but the latest...
As extreme weather ravages the Pacific, there is much to do and no time...
By Mark Howden and Ofa Ma’asi-Kaisamy
In the past decade the two most intense cyclones recorded to date in the southern hemisphere ripped through...
Pacific Islanders: Failure to commit to 1.5 degrees at COP27 will imperil the World’s...
By Catherine Wilson
Oceans play a pivotal role in regulating the world’s climate and maintaining the conditions for human life on earth. And they...
IPCC Impacts Report: National leaders must act on Climate crisis to ensure human health...
Responding to Monday's publication of the stark Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which details widespread, growing,...
Might makes not right, unjust wars are doomed to be lost
Op-ed by Josep Borrell, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission.
At this dark hour, when...
In the Pacific, a rich vein of resources still doesn’t make for rich populations
Fish, logs and metals buried under the sea floor are all on the shopping list of the resource-hungry powers of China and the West....
‘The grass is green here’: How Auckland became Mecca for Pasifika communities
By Torika Tokalau
Auckland was promoted as a ‘Mecca’ for Pacific Islanders in the 1950s. They came in their droves, and Tāmaki Makaurau is...
The big picture for our big Ocean states in 2022- thoughts from the Blue...
The commentary below takes its cue from remarks led by Forum Secretary General Henry Puna, at the Ministerial Forum for Cooperation in the Indo...
Dislocation and disruption: climate change in the Indo-Pacific in 2035
By Robert Glasser
The impacts of climate change on the Indo-Pacific, already the most exposed region in the world to climate hazards and home to...
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