High-tech mapping to help Tuvalu adapt to rising seas
High-tech mapping over Tuvalu in the last week is expected to provide comprehensive data which will help it adapt to...
Economic and climate resilience focus of NZ meeting in Cooks
The 2019 Joint Ministerial Forum was held on Aitutaki and included Cook Island Prime Minister Henry Puna, his deputy Mark...
100 canoes by Christmas
One hundred canoes by Christmas. That's the aim of one of the Pacific's most ambitious traditional boat building projects. Read...
Nine ships selected for landmark methanol trials
The Green Maritime Methanol consortium has selected nine ships for research on the application of renewable methanol as a marine...
Pacific has ‘moral authority’ on climate crisis – Guterres
The Pacific region has the moral authority to demand global action on the climate crisis, the UN Secretary General says....
‘People’s Climate Case’ involving Fijian family dismissed
A Fijian family involved in an international climate case has been told they have no right to go to court...
Climate change missing from Trump’s Pacific meeting – analysts
The historic event on Tuesday with Palau, the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia renewed Washington's ties to the states. ...
Alarm raised at the vast amount of money owed in backpay to the world’s seafarers
The amount of back pay owed to crew remains alarmingly high despite greater scrutiny from mainstream press and the general...
NOAA Forecasts ‘Near-Normal’ Hurricane Season For Atlantic, ‘Above-Normal’ For Pacific
Federal scientists are predicting a “near-normal” hurricane season in the Atlantic and “above-normal” cyclone activity in the central Pacific. Read...
Big Polluters Hijack Shipping Talks to Slow Decarbonisation Progress
UN shipping talks stalled last week as slow-moving players, including Saudi Arabia, Brazil and the US, obstructed attempts to decide...
IMO’s Feng Shui cannot hide the paucity of its climate response
On 13 May delegates attending the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) week-long committee meeting on the marine environment and shipping were...
Pacific nuclear waste site was put under a dome – and the dome is cracking
At 6.45am on March 1, 1954, the blue sky stretching over the south Pacific Ocean was split open by an...