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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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.”
“Climate change is now everyones problem, it involves health, foreign affairs, agriculture and even finance, we are now giving them ownership of adaptation plans for Samoa,” said Anne Rasmussen, Principle Climate Change for Samoa.