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Under US pressure, Mexico probes loggerhead sea turtle deaths
Sep 04, 2024 (AFP)
The Latin American nation has been criticized by US authorities for failing to do enough to protect the turtles, which have been affected by illegal fishing. As...
Upwind Moisture Sources Significantly Increase Global Water Security Risks
Sep 03, 2024 (SPX)
Traditionally, global water supply assessments focus on the rain falling directly on the earth's surface, which is then stored in aquifers, lakes, and rivers. H...
New portable tool can detect microplastics in minutes
Sep 01, 2024 (SPX)
This innovative device utilizes fluorescent labeling to detect plastic particles as small as 50 nanometres to 10 microns, which are too tiny to be seen with the...
The critical role of Atlantic-Arctic water mixing in global ocean circulation uncovered
Sep 01, 2024 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Southampton, the Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, the National Oceanography Centre, and Stockholm University analy...
Solomon Islands voices 'concern' over Pacific police deal
Aug 30, 2024 (AFP)
Security was a focal point at this year's Pacific Islands Forum, which brought together an unwieldy mix of close US partners, warm China friends, and those taki...
NASA JPL Developing Underwater Robots to Venture Deep Below Polar Ice
Aug 30, 2024 (SPX)
This test gave engineers a chance to operate their prototype robot in the Arctic. It was also a step toward the ultimate vision for their project, called IceNod...
Pacific bloc backs joint police plan, maintains Taiwan ties
Aug 30, 2024 (AFP)
Security was a focal point at this year's Pacific Islands Forum, an unwieldy bloc of US partners, China friends and states still tied to Taiwan. US-ally Austral...
Indebted UK water supplier proposes massive bill hike
Aug 28, 2024 (AFP)
The company -- dogged by financial troubles -- proposed a more than 50 percent increase in bills over the next five years to finance what it says are "much need...
Greek port grapples with flood of dead fish
Aug 28, 2024 (AFP)
It is the second environmental catastrophe to hit the port of Volos, a three-and-a-half-hour drive north of Athens, after catastrophic floods hit the Thessaly r...
Pacific Island leaders agree joint policing plan: Australia PM
Aug 28, 2024 (AFP)
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said leaders had agreed to the Pacific Policing Initiative, which would create up to four regional training centres and establis...
Pacific Island leaders endorse joint policing plan
Aug 28, 2024 (AFP)
Leaders unveiled a plan to create up to four regional police training centres and a multinational crisis reaction force, backed by $271 million in initial fundi...
Major Pacific sea mining project eyes 2026 start
Aug 27, 2024 (AFP)
Canada-based The Metals Company is leading a contentious push to mine the sea floor underneath the Pacific Ocean, hoovering up lumps of rock studded with covete...
The battle over mining mineral-rich deep sea 'nodules'
Aug 27, 2024 (AFP)
To the mining firms vying to extract them, on the other hand, they promise to be a "battery in a rock". This month at a week-long meeting of the International S...
UN's Guterres issues 'global SOS' over fast-rising Pacific ocean
Aug 27, 2024 (AFP)
"I am in Tonga to issue a global SOS -- Save Our Seas -- on rising sea levels. A worldwide catastrophe is putting this Pacific paradise in peril" he said. Spars...
Uganda prison's water cut off after failing to pay bill
Aug 26, 2024 (AFP)
The maximum-security Luzira prison in the capital Kampala houses more than 8,000 male and female inmates as well as 2,600 staff, according to parliament records...
Polluters should pay for climate damage: Tuvalu minister
Aug 26, 2024 (AFP)
The Pacific Islands Forum got underway in Tonga's capital Nuku'alofa, with leaders hoping to draw global attention to the region's worsening climate plight. "We...
Taiwan sends diplomat to meet 'friends' at Pacific forum
Aug 25, 2024 (AFP)
The South Pacific was once seen as a bastion of support for Taiwan's claim to statehood, but China has been methodically whittling this down. In the last five y...
Key summit opens at 'pivotal' time for Pacific islands
Aug 25, 2024 (AFP)
Melodic Tongan choir singers and dancing school children in traditional dress welcomed foreign leaders to the seaside capital Nuku'alofa for this year's Pacific...
Pacific leaders confront 'polycrisis' of rising seas and climbing tensions
Aug 23, 2024 (AFP)
This year's Pacific Islands Forum takes place in Nuku'alofa, a breezy coastal capital still finding its feet after a calamitous volcanic eruption and tsunami in...
Drought-hit Zambia to extend power cuts to 17 hours a day
Aug 23, 2024 (AFP)
Since the southern African country declared a national disaster in February because of the drought, it has been scaling back power supply and importing electric...
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