World faces disastrous 2.7C temperature rise on current climate plans, UN warns
The world is squandering the opportunity to “build back better” from the Covid-19 pandemic and faces disastrous temperature rises of at least 2.7C if...
Fearful of losing their homelands, islands are taking Australia to court over climate
“This island is me, and I am this island,” Wadhuam Pabai.
Pabai says of the homeland he’s known all his life.
“I can’t imagine being forced...
U.S rep Katie Porter presses Biden team on Marshall Islands nuclear waste, gets few...
For months, U.S refusal to accept responsibility for a leaking dome of radioactive waste in the Marshall Islands has complicated negotiations with the Marshallese...
Bomb blast kills father and son, others seriously injured in Solomon Islands
A deadly bomb blast at LDA area, Upper Betikama in east Honiara in Solomon Islands has killed two people, a father and his son...
‘No time to lose’ curbing greenhouse gases: WMO
Last year, heat-trapping greenhouse gases reached a new record, surging above the planet's 2011-2020 average, and has continued in 2021, according to a new...
Mass burial approved in PNG
Papua New Guinea Pandemic Response Controller David Manning has authorised the mass burial of 200 bodies in the Port Moresby General Hospital mortuary.
The mortuary...
Urgent action needed as COVID-19 overwhelms PNG health system
The International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) calls for concerted international action to support Papua New Guinea (PNG) as a surge...
Pacific Leaders must put Australia on notice, AUKUS “highly problematic” for the region
Australia needs to be put on notice by Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders for abandoning its commitments under the South Pacific's nuclear free accord,...
Former PMs apologise to Pacific leaders for Australia’s apathy on climate crisis
Former Australian prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull, and former foreign affairs minister Bob Carr, have accused the Morrison government of “cynical indifference”...
China and U.S must cooperate to stop Pacific Islands from sinking, urges Micronesia president
Climate change is more of a threat to the Indo-Pacific region than a great power war, the president of the Pacific’s Federated States of...
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