Australia slammed for Minister Peter Dutton’s climate joke, ‘insensitivity’...
A ferry and recreational boats pass in front of the Sydney Opera House September 28, 2014. Local media reported that the Sydney Opera House Trust has been awarded an AUD$225,000 ($200,000) grant by the
View ArticleVietnam's largest island polluted
Increasing pollution is threatening the seas and ecology surrounding the tourist island of Phu Quoc in Vietnam's southern Kien Giang province, local media reported Monday. Rubbish and waste water from
View ArticleFiji PM decries Australia's 'climate change deniers' in...
Frank Bainimarama says: ‘The Australian government, in particular, seems intent on putting its own immediate economic interests first’ The prime minister of Fiji has delivered a blistering broadside
View ArticleBefore we drown we may die of thirst
The island nation of Kiribati is one of the world's most vulnerable to rising sea levels. But residents may have to leave well before the ocean claims their homes.
View ArticleLarge-scale range collapse of Hawaiian forest birds under climate change and...
A key challenge in climate change adaptation planning is projecting how changes in climate will affect efforts to conserve biological communities, and in particular species already under threat. While
View ArticleCoalition of business leaders challenges 2C climate change target
A group of high-profile business leaders has challenged governments to set strong targets and not slam the door on limiting warming to 1.5C. On Monday, a Paris meeting aimed at reaching a global deal
View ArticleRenewable desalination: technology options for Islands
Many islands face shortages of fresh water. Desalination using renewable energy can meet their water needs at reduced costs, this report finds. Desalination methods such as reverse osmosis (RO) or...
View ArticleClimate challenges, vulnerabilities, and food security
This paper identifies rare climate challenges in the long-term history of seven areas, three in the subpolar North Atlantic Islands and four in the arid-to-semiarid deserts of the US Southwest. For
View ArticleGlobal mismatch between greenhouse gas emissions and the burden of climate...
Countries export much of the harm created by their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions because the Earth’s atmosphere intermixes globally. Yet, the extent to which this leads to inequity between GHG
View ArticleDredging in the Spratly Islands: Gaining land but losing reefs
Coral reefs on remote islands and atolls are less exposed to direct human stressors but are becoming increasingly vulnerable because of their development for geopolitical and military purposes. Here
View ArticleLate Quaternary climate change shapes island biodiversity
Changes in island area, isolation and connectivity observed since the Last Glacial Maximum have had measurable effects on present-day biodiversity, with formerly larger and less well connected islands
View ArticleIslands of Gauguin and Robinson Crusoe 'could become parched paradise'
Three-quarters of the world’s small islands, home to 16 million people, are set to get more arid by mid-century, according to a study published in journal Nature Climate Change on Monday. Warmer...
View ArticleFreshwater Scarcity Real In Small Islands
Global climate models today signify that 50 percent of small islands will become drier and the other 50 percent wetter by mid-century. However, the new study that was published recently argued that a more
View Article5.0-magnitude earthquake occurs in Andaman Sea, no causalities reported
A 5.0-magnitude earthquake occurred near the Andaman Islands west of Thailand early Wednesday, no causalities were reported. According to the Seismological Bureau of Thai Meteorological Department,
View ArticleNew Zealand aiding Pacific nations to be resilient to climate change
WELLINGTON, June 7 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand will help Pacific island peoples adapt their homelands to climate change and rising sea-levels as many are unwilling to leave their homes, Climate Change...
View Article6.2 magnitude earthquake hits Vanuatu
A 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu on Tuesday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties, and no tsunami
View ArticleArctic Could Be “Free” Of Sea Ice This Year Or Next — 1st Time In 100,000 Years
A somewhat controversial statement was made 4 years ago by Professor Peter Wadhams, head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group at Cambridge University, that the Arctic Ocean could well be free of sea ice...
View ArticleCaribbean island's last two rare frogs are reunited
The last two remaining wild mountain chicken frogs living on Montserrat have been reunited, and are hoped to begin breeding on the Caribbean island for the first time since 2009. Last month, a project
View ArticleCutting the cable: Kangaroo Island eyes switch to 100% renewable energy
Australia’s third-biggest island could combine wind, solar, PV and battery storage to fuel own electricity needs – and set a blueprint for the rest of the country Kangaroo Island is one of the great
View ArticlePhilippines' Luzon Island Has the World's Greatest Concentration of...
According to a study published in the journal Frontiers of Biogeography, researchers discovered a plethora of 56 new mammal species, excluding bats, in Luzon, 52 of which are endemic. The reason behind
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