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Palau, Kiribati, Vanuatu and Marshall Islands Urge Action on ICJ Climate Opinion
Island Times
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September 12, 2025
At the Pacific Islands Forum, leaders from Kiribati, Palau, Vanuatu and the Marshall Islands said the ICJ climate ruling must be more than symbolic. They called for urgent policy changes to safeguard sovereignty, secure justice, and ensure Pacific...
ICJ ruling gives Pacific ‘legal clarity’ on climate obligations: Marshall Islands…
Pacific News Service
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By Pita Ligaiula in Honiara, Solomon Islands Marshall Islands Climate Envoy Tina Stege says the International Court of Justice (ICJ) advisory opinion on climate change delivers the legal clarity Pacific nations have long sought in the fight...
Senator advocates for Marshall Islands nuclear accountability at Taiwan summit
The Guam Daily Post
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Sen. Telo Taitague returned to Guam last week after representing the island at a Pacific parliamentary gathering in Taiwan, where she championed a resolution calling for renewed U.S. accountability for nuclear testing damage in the Marshall...
Marshall Islands picks up the pieces after fire destroys its ‘heart of democracy’
The Guardian
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September 2, 2025
In Majuro, a day after fire ravaged the national parliament, the full devastation became clear. The building known as Nitijela had been reduced to a blackened shell, littered with debris. Among the objects lost to the fire were archive documents,...
Guam’s push for downwinders hits another roadblock; PARS mulls lawsuit
The Pacific Island Times
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September 13, 2025
A fresh try to have Guam residents compensated after being exposed to radioactive fallout from decades ago has hit another brick wall, this time in a vain attempt to insert a provision on military financial support for Guam’s “downwinders.” Robert...
Netweaving the Soul of Pasifika Development
Solomon Star
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September 13, 2025
Introduction: Reconnecting with Our Pacific Soul Bula vinaka, talofa lava, malo e lelei, halo olgeta – warm Pacific greetings to you all. Esteemed leaders, respected elders, fellow academics, youth representatives, and civil society champions –...
From beaches to golf courses: The world's most unusual airport runways
RNZ
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September 12, 2025
Kansai International Airport straddles two manmade islands three miles off the coast of Japan, and has a terminal designed by Renzo Piano. Photo: Getty Images via CNN Newsource By Julia Buckley, CNN When it comes to travel, wherever you are in the...
‘There are hundreds in the Baltic’: tracking Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ of oil tankers
The Guardian
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September 13, 2025
In front of a bank of screens on the boat’s bridge, the Swedish coastguard Jan Erik Antonsson shows on a live map on a laptop how many vessels of Russia’s “shadow fleet” there are in the area. “These green symbols are the shadow fleet,” he says....
Connections: Marshall Islands Team To Make Global Debut
Northwest Arkansas Business Journal
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August 16, 2025
The Marshall Islands, which was the only United Nations-recognized country without a national soccer team, will debut its men’s team at the 2025 Outrigger Challenge Cup, hosted from Aug. 11-17 at Jarrell Williams Bulldog Stadium in Springdale. The...
Meet the Fijian female engineers making their mark in Marshall Islands
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 15, 2025
Thirty years ago, the presence of a female worker in the power plants in the Marshall Islands wasn't just unusual; it rarely occurred. Fast-forward to 2025, and five women engineers from Fiji are working for the Marshall Islands Energy Company in...
Is THIS where Amelia Earhart's missing plane is? Scientists say they've pinpointed the exact location of her wreckage using a radio restored from 1937
Daily Mail
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August 29, 2025
It's one of the most famous aviation disappearances in history. But experts may be one step closer to finally locating the wreck of Amelia Earhart's plane, which vanished nearly 90 years ago. The legendary aviator and her navigator, Fred Noonan,...
Can This Tree Still Save Us? In Some Places It’s Barely Hanging On
Honolulu Civil Beat - Hawaii
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September 11, 2025
ʻUlu, bia, uru, mā: Breadfruit has been lauded as a climate-resilient solution to world food security. That’s not proving true in the Marshall Islands, where some have relied on it for centuries. ʻUlu, bia, uru, mā: Breadfruit has been lauded as a...
Pilottown to the Pacific: UD researchers help solve WWII mysteries
Cape Gazette - Delaware
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Mark Moline and Erik White spent a recent Saturday morning at the University of Delaware’s Hugh R. Sharp Campus in Lewes packing up equipment to ship 8,000 miles to the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. One of the high-tech pieces of gear was...
10 disappearing island groups that could be lost forever: The places most at risk from rising sea levels
Discover Wildlife
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September 12, 2025
Dozens of island nations and thousands of individual islands are threatened by rising sea levels all over the world. They are at the frontline of the impacts of carbon emissions as a result of burning coal, gas and oil, though almost all of them...
Australian Embassy grant cycle for the islands, and UOG School of Engineering secures funding
Marianas Business Journal
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In precarious times for funding, some unique initiatives can offer special opportunities. The Direct Aid Program is managed globally through overseas Australian missions and is a small grants initiative supporting non-government organizations and...
Embry-Riddle Researchers Launch Rockets for a Deeper Look at Ionized Clouds That Disrupt Communications
Space Travel
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Embry-Riddle Researchers Launch Rockets for a Deeper Look at Ionized Clouds That Disrupt Communications by Michaela Jarvis Daytona Beach FL (SPX) Aug 06, 2025 Embry-Riddle researchers recently shot two 46-foot-tall rockets into clouds high in the...
From beaches to golf courses: The world’s most unusual airport runways
KRDO - Colorado
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September 12, 2025
By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — When it comes to travel, wherever you are in the world, some things never change. McDonald’s is always McDonald’s. A hotel lobby is always a hotel lobby. An inflight safety demonstration is always a safety...
Pacific Islands News Roundup – September 5 – 11, 2025
Pacific Islands Report
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September 12, 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,...
5 US Aircraft Carriers You Can Visit As A Museum Ship
SlashGear
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September 11, 2025
It's pretty mind-blowing that aircraft carriers even exist. Even more so, they were already a regular feature by the Second World War, almost a century ago. They're practically miniature floating cities, populated with massive crews, filled to the...
Iran Update, September 11, 2025
Critical Threats - Washington D.C.
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Information Cutoff: 2:00 PM ET The Critical Thre ats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) publish the Iran Update, which provides insights into Iranian and Iranian-sponsored activities...