Threats to Guam’s coral reefs may impact tourism
PDN Guam: According to Guam Visitors Bureau exit surveys, one of the top reasons visitors come to Guam is for the island’s natural beauty and environment, said Bobby Alvarez, agency acting…
Australia must help protect Pacific from climate change, PNG prime minister says
Australia has a responsibility to protect the Pacific region from the impacts of climate change, PNG’s newly appointed prime minister has said. James Marape told the Guardian Australia had “a…
Some reef islands resilient to climate change: study
The Pacific’s low-lying reef islands are likely to change shape in response to climate change, rather than simply sinking beneath rising seas and becoming uninhabitable as previously assumed, new research…
Hundreds of reindeer starve to death on Arctic islands ‘due to climate change’
More than 200 reindeer have died of starvation on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, with scientists blaming their deaths on climate change. The wild deer carcasses were found on the Arctic islands this summer by researchers from…
In the Pacific – oceans and climate change have compromised livelihoods
By Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson The Chiefs of Falealupo village, on the island of Savaii noticed a disturbing trend in the last ten years in their lagoon. The presence of crown…
Fish Kills Reported in Fiji and Vanuatu
By Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson You know how we talk about worst case scenario of climate change impacts? Well, it’s happening now in some Pacific islands. All across the Pacific, high…
Top UN climate change official sceptical about relocation as a response to climate change
By Cherelle Jackson POZNAN – The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Mr. Yvo de Boer, has made it clear that islands should be…
Government ‘negligent’ in construction and location of Aleipata slipway
“I am overwhelmingly disappointed that the Government has not taken into account the Marine Protected Area (MPA) and the impacts of the Slipway on marine life and the lives who depend on that area.”