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Rise in dengue fever outbreaks across the Pacific driven by the climate crisis, experts say
The Guardian
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August 12, 2025
The climate crisis is driving a sharp rise in dengue fever cases across the Pacific islands, experts say, as infections hit their highest level in a decade and several countries declare emergencies. Pacific Island countries and territories have...
Australia-New Zealand Leaders’ Meeting 2025
The National Tribune
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August 9, 2025
Prime Minister 1 The Prime Minister of New Zealand, the Right Honourable Christopher Luxon, welcomed the Prime Minister of Australia, the Honourable Anthony Albanese MP to New Zealand. 2 Prime Ministers affirmed the unique close bond and alliance...
Who’s who at the plastics treaty talks, from delegates to lobbyists
Grist Magazine
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August 8, 2025
As delegates from around the world have negotiated a global plastics treaty over five sessions since 2022, alliances have emerged among nations, across civil society, and throughout the private sector. Some countries have banded together in...
Pacific Islands News Roundup – August 1 – August 7, 2025
Pacific Islands Report
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August 8, 2025
Editor’s Note: We are undergoing a web host migration process and may need to make necessary modifications to our format and frequency over the next several weeks. Thank you in advance for your understanding. Political Leadership and Regionalism,...
LETTER: Why knowing CHamoru history still matters
Pacific Daily News
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Many of us from Guam know the broad strokes: the flags that flew, the bombs that fell, the stories our grandparents told, and the Liberation Day parades each July. But what about way before all that? Long before we were first colonized by Spain in...
Maps show the ocean’s getting a lot more protection. The satellite view is not so pretty.
Anthropocene
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August 6, 2025
Maps suggest the ocean has been getting a lot more protection lately. But satellites offer a much less encouraging view. On paper, the size of so-called marine protected areas (MPAs), designed to shield ecosystems from harm by humans, has grown...
Triathlon Samoa Hosts Record-Breaking Apia Half-Marathon and Team Relay
Samoa Global News
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August 10, 2025
Apia, Samoa – Saturday, 9 August 2025. Triathlon Samoa has successfully pulled off the biggest running event of the year – the Apia Half-Marathon and Team Relay which kicked off in the early hours of the morning, Saturday 9 August 2025. The event...
Ben Morgan’s Pacific Update: Australia announces plan to buy Japanese warships
The Daily Blog
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August 8, 2025
This week Australia announced that it intends to purchase 11, updated Mogami Class frigates from Japan. Australia’s 2024 National Defence Strategy stated that the nation would significantly increase the size and combat capability of the Royal...
The fight to save Hawaii’s coconut palms
Hawaii Tribune Herald
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August 9, 2025
Across Hawaii, what looks like a bad haircut on the landscape is marking the slow death of the coconut palm, that icon of paradise. The culprit: the coconut rhinoceros beetle, a glossy, thumb-size scarab that bores into the crowns of palms to feed...
Hawaiian independence party resists US war drive against China
Friends of Socialist China
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August 8, 2025
The following is an interview by People’s Dispatch with Kawenaʻulaokalā Kapahua, of the Hawaiian independence party Hui Aloha ʻĀina (Hawaiian Patriotic League). Kawena spoke to People’s Dispatch ahead of the People’s Summit for Korea, which took...
Most Sunscreens Harm Reefs and Wildlife — Use These Eco-Friendly Options Instead
Rolling Stone
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August 5, 2025
Before your next vacation, swap out your current SPF for one of these natural, reef-safe sunscreens If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission....
Phil Collins' musical career in photos
Oak Ridger - Tennessee
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Timothy Hiatt, Getty ImagesPhil Collins, drummer and singer with British rock band Genesis, takes a break behind his drum kit, while rehearsing at the Rainbow Theatre in London, January 1977.Graham Wood, Getty ImagesThe members of British rock...
Marine Protected Areas Day: Ocean protection needs human connection
Earth.com
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The ocean has long seemed too vast to manage, too deep to control, and too distant to monitor. But this perception is changing fast. With satellites, machine learning, and global cooperation, the idea of protecting the marine life is no longer...
Plastics treaty at risk from oil lobby, Trump rollbacks
GCN
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August 7, 2025
On Tuesday, negotiations on a convention to reduce plastic waste will resume in Geneva. To add on to that, communities all throughout the world are battling the obvious and hidden effects of plastic waste. The scope of the issue is astounding,...
Reporting on rights and wrongs for whom in Myanmar?
Democratic Voice of Burma
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August 4, 2025
Guest contributor David Scott Mathieson In what has to be one of the most damning headlines so far this year, the U.N. admitted its written output of activities doesn’t amount to much. “UN report finds United Nations reports are not widely read”,...
US rollbacks imperil global plastic treaty
China Daily Global
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A general view of the assembly hall at the start of plastics treaty negotiations at the United Nations Offices in Geneva on Aug 5, 2025. [Photo/Agencies] GENEVA — Hopes for a "last-chance" ambitious global treaty to curb plastic pollution have...
From Westlake to the world
The Acorn - California
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August 7, 2025
GLOBE TROTTER—Above, 19-year-old Arjun Malaviya, seen in the middle, meets with local Taliban members in Kabul, Afghanistan during his world trip. Courtesy photos While many teenagers spend their time preparing for college or lining up jobs,...
Trading places: Education options
Marianas Business Journal
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BY OYAOL NGIRAIRIKL AND MARK RABAGO Journal Staff, Saipan Correspondent JohnsonAcross Micronesia, career and technical education is being reshaped by home-grown institutions in an effort to meet the region’s workforce needs head-on. In Guam and...
New Migration Provisions in the Landmark ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’
The Tablet - New York
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August 6, 2025
President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” contains at least 30 provisions related to migration, including funding for border security enhancements and other measures. (Photo: OSV News/Leah Millis, via Reuters) On July 17, the United...
Oil producer pressure, Trump rollbacks threaten global treaty on plastics pollution
The Straits Times
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August 4, 2025
GENEVA - Hopes for a “last-chance” ambitious global treaty to curb plastic pollution have dimmed as delegates gather this week at the United Nations in Geneva for what was intended to be the final round of negotiations. Diplomats and climate...