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Fiji's biggest threat 'climate change, not conflict'
Jun 12, 2022 (AFP)
This weekend's Shangri-La Dialogue, which brings together defence ministers from around the world, has seen sparring between Washington and Beijing over Taiwan ...
La Nina climate cycle could last into 2023: UN
Jun 10, 2022 (AFP)
La Nina refers to the large-scale cooling of surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, occurring every two to seven years. The U...
The Southern Ocean as never seen before
Jun 10, 2022 (SPX)
Encircling the Antarctic continent, the Southern Ocean is a key region for the Earth system and the global climate. Here, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, dri...
China's diplomatic gambit heralds new 'Battle for the Pacific'
Jun 03, 2022 (AFP)
On the face of it, Wang Yi's trip was a failure. His centrepiece proposal -- a regional pact to turbocharge China's role in Pacific island security -- was leake...
China's FM pens agreements in East Timor on final Pacific stop
Jun 03, 2022 (AFP)
Wang Yi met with East Timor's top diplomat Adaljiza Magno in the capital Dili for a signing ceremony where they penned agreements on agriculture, media partners...
China, Papua New Guinea discuss free-trade deal
Jun 03, 2022 (AFP)
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape said discussions in the capital Port Moresby had focused on economic cooperation and a long-mooted trade agreemen...
How electric fish were able to evolve electric organs
Jun 02, 2022 (SPX)
Evolution took advantage of a quirk of fish genetics to develop electric organs. All fish have duplicate versions of the same gene that produces tiny muscle mot...
US backs Philippines in China fishing ban
Jun 02, 2022 (AFP)
The State Department pointed to a 2016 ruling by a court in The Hague that rejected Beijing's claims, as well as the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, ratifi...
Senegal launches contested water desalination scheme
Jun 01, 2022 (AFP)
President Macky Sall on Tuesday ceremonially launched work to build a plant in Dakar's Mamelles district aimed at easing the capital's chronic water shortage. S...
Unprecedented water curbs kick in for drought-hit Los Angeles
Jun 01, 2022 (AFP)
More than six million customers are affected by the new measures, which limit watering gardens to one day a week and only during the coolest hours, under penalt...
China says not competing for influence in South Pacific
Jun 01, 2022 (AFP)
In a statement distributed by the Chinese embassy in Canberra, Beijing said it "does not seek exclusive rights" in the region and "we have no intention to compe...
US says committed to Pacific islands that rejected 'opaque' China pact
May 31, 2022 (AFP)
In a major diplomatic setback for Beijing, 10 Pacific island states on Monday rebuffed a proposal that would have pulled them into China's orbit. State Departme...
China eyes security pact in Pacific Island summit
May 30, 2022 (AFP)
The virtual summit is expected to discuss leaked proposals for China to radically increase its involvement in the security, economy and politics of the South Pa...
China fails to ink security pact with Pacific nations
May 30, 2022 (AFP)
A virtual summit of leaders and foreign ministers was expected to discuss proposals to radically increase China's involvement in the security, economy and polit...
Decline in North Sea puffins causes concern
May 29, 2022 (AFP)
But conservationists are concerned about dwindling numbers of one of the island's most distinctive visitors -- the Atlantic puffin. "The population was really b...
Pacific 'very positive' on Australian re-engagement: PM
May 29, 2022 (AFP)
The comments from Anthony Albanese -- aired Sunday in an interview with Sky News -- came as Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Fiji for closely watched me...
Pacific nations reject China security pact
May 28, 2022 (AFP)
Vanuatu declares climate emergency
May 28, 2022 (AFP)
Speaking to parliament in Port Vila on Friday, Prime Minister Bob Loughman said rising sea levels and severe weather were already disproportionately affecting t...
Australia urges Pacific nations to shun China security deals
May 27, 2022 (AFP)
Foreign Minister Penny Wong was in Fiji on her first solo visit, seeking to woo island states after the Solomon Islands took Canberra by surprise last month by ...
Where rivers jump course
May 27, 2022 (SPX)
Large floods will sometimes force a river to jump course and forge a new path across the landscape, in rare and catastrophic events known as river avulsions. Th...
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