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Panama's first climate change displaced bid their island farewell
May 29, 2024 (AFP)
The soon-to-be former inhabitants of the island of Carti Sugtupu are the first people in Panama to be displaced by climate change. Caught between nostalgia and ...
Texas team creates first global map of seafloor biodiversity activity
May 29, 2024 (SPX)
The international team, led by Texas A and M University and including investigators from Yale University and the University of Southampton, specifically focused...
Bid to 'privatize' Brazil beaches sparks outcry
May 29, 2024 (AFP)
Brazil has one of the world's longest coastlines, at around 7,500 kilometers (4,600 miles) and by law beaches are public assets and thus government property. Th...
World's island states meet to confront climate, fiscal challenges
May 27, 2024 (AFP)
Both will be high on the agenda this week as Small Island Developing States (SIDS), as they're formally known, meet Monday at their fourth UN Conference, in the...
World's island states blame richest countries for climate threats
May 27, 2024 (AFP)
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) "find themselves on the front line of a battle against a confluence of crises, none of which they have caused or created,"...
France's historic D-Day beaches threatened by rising sea levels
May 27, 2024 (AFP)
More than 100 kilometres (62 miles) of Normandy's coastline bear traces of June 6, 1944, including bunkers, shipwrecked vessels, and other vestiges from the All...
Europe's water contamined by PFAS chemical: NGOs
May 27, 2024 (AFP)
The European Pesticide Action Network (PAN Europe) and its members analysed more than two dozen surface and groundwater samples from 10 European Union countries...
Taiwan's oyster farmers on frontline of China war games
May 27, 2024 (AFP)
While the 66-year-old has worked to keep tradition alive in Kinmen, the island administered by Taiwan has found itself on the frontline of Chinese war games. "T...
Low-lying Maldives seeks easier funding to battle waves
May 25, 2024 (AFP)
"The Maldives is liable for just 0.003 percent of global emissions, but is one of the first countries to endure the existential consequences of the climate cris...
Myanmar junta revives plans for China-backed mega-dam
May 24, 2024 (AFP)
The project to build the 6,000-megawatt Myitsone dam in northern Kachin state was ended in 2011 under a previous junta. Its opponents said the dam on the Ayeyar...
WWF takes Norway to court over deep sea mining
May 23, 2024 (AFP)
Already Western Europe's largest oil and gas producer, Norway could become one of the first countries to authorise seabed mining, arguing the importance of not ...
Small satellite launched to monitor ocean health
May 23, 2024 (SPX)
MIT professors Dava Newman, Kerri Cahoy, and Richard Linares led the project, with significant contributions from grad students Madeline Anderson, Cadence Payne...
Lithuania summons Russian diplomat over sea border expansion
May 22, 2024 (AFP)
Lithuania's foreign ministry said it was "summoning a representative of the Russian Federation for a full explanation". Finland's Foreign Minister Elina Valtone...
Small island states win 'historic' climate case at UN court
May 21, 2024 (AFP)
Finding that carbon emissions can be considered a sea pollutant, the court said countries had an obligation to take measures to mitigate their effects on oceans...
Solomon Islands praises Australia as 'partner of choice'
May 21, 2024 (AFP)
Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles travelled to the capital Honiara to bolster ties with premier Jeremiah Manele, who replaced stridently pro-Beij...
Controversial floating beach unveiled off French Riviera
May 17, 2024 (AFP)
"Canua Island", a 1,750 square-metre (18,800 square feet) motorised platform boasting a restaurant, bar lounge and freshwater swimming pool, was inaugurated Thu...
Paraguay, Pacific island leaders to attend Taiwan inauguration
May 17, 2024 (AFP)
Incoming president Lai Ching-te will be sworn in on Monday against a backdrop of increasing diplomatic and military pressure from neighbour China, which claims ...
French marines patrol New Caledonia after deadly riots
May 17, 2024 (AFP)
Military and police "reinforcements will control areas that have got out of our hands in recent days," said French high commissioner Louis Le Franc, the highest...
Global coral bleaching event expanding to new countries: scientists
May 16, 2024 (AFP)
Amid record ocean temperatures, coral bleaching has been recorded in 62 countries and territories since February 2023, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric A...
Music reveals cultural insights into human history
May 15, 2024 (SPX)
Utilizing The Global Jukebox - an online database of more than 5,000 songs - the study demonstrates music's unique ability to uncover new information about our ...
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