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New marine sanctuary declared in the ‘time-machine’ Marshall Islands
Oceanographic Magazine
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January 28, 2025
The first marine sanctuary of the Marshall Islands has just been announced by the Pacific island nation. While it will cover two remote atolls, it will span across 48,000 square kilometres around the country’s two northernmost islands – Bikar and...
Marshall Islands in IAEA international task force set up to review safety of Fukushima treated water release
Pacific News Service
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The Republic of Marshall Islands is part of an international task force established by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to review the safety of a planned release of water now stored at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant....
Fewer people, higher incomes: Marshall Islands shares in-depth census results with partner support
Pacific Community (SPC)
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The Marshall Islands’ first fully digital census shows a declining population but increasing incomes over the past decade, while highlighting differences in wealth, food insecurity, readiness for climate change and the impact of natural disasters....
Marshall Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu marching to universal health care
Talanoa 'O Tonga
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November 28, 2024
The vision of universal health coverage—where anyone can just walk into a local hospital or clinic and avail of quality health services for free or at a meager cost—is still a distant ideal for most Pacific island nations but they are working...
Does Marshalls support Israel? Diplomatic ties and business positions
Brussels Morning
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September 1, 2025
One unassociated Pacific island state, the Marshall Islands, is notorious for its enthusiastic support of Israel in UN and diplomatic votes. Since 1987, the Marshall Islands has had a diplomatic relationship with Israel and, from time to time, as...
Marshallese leaders look to science, military tech to tackle climate change crisis
Hawaii News Now
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March 9, 2025
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Marshallese government leaders met with scientists, the military, and community members in Honolulu this past week to see how military technology can help manage its climate change crisis. Marshall Islands' Ambassador to...
Marshall Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu marching to universal health care
The Pacific Island Times
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November 21, 2024
Immunization day in the Selima community in Vanuatu. Photo courtesy of WHO/Yoshi Shimizu The vision of universal health coverage—where anyone can just walk into a local hospital or clinic and avail of quality health services for free or at a...
Indigenous scientists are fighting to protect their data — and their culture
The Verge
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May 12, 2025
Every month, a group of Indigenous scientists from around the world gathers on Zoom. They never have an agenda. They meet as colleagues to catch up and commiserate about the challenges of being Indigenous in Western academia. Their February...
Research links micronutrients to tackling Pacific obesity
Samoa News
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March 7, 2025
Honolulu, HAWAII — Children ages two to eight years across 11 Pacific jurisdictions (Alaska, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Hawai'i, Marshall Islands, and Palau) are not meeting...
With global powers barred, can Pacific nations find unity at their annual summit?
The Conversation
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September 7, 2025
It’s been a testing time for Pacific regional unity. So far this year, there have been rifts between Cook Islands and New Zealand over security arrangements with China; New Caledonia and France over independence for the French territory; and among...
US Coral Reef Task Force awards UOG Marine Lab scientists for cornerstone research
Pacific Daily News
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The task force leading U.S. efforts to preserve and protect coral reef ecosystems recognized the coral reef and fisheries conservation work of three University of Guam Marine Laboratory researchers. The U.S. Coral Reef Task Force, a coalition of...
Marshall Islands President Heine receives Women of Impact award
Islands Business
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October 28, 2024
Experts, researchers, policymakers, civil society organisations and students will soon convene in Suva to engage in meaningful discussions on climate resilience. The Global Development Network (GDN), in collaboration with the Government of Fiji...
Marshall Islands demands justice for US nuclear testing in the Pacific
Global Voices
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October 17, 2024
A colorized image of a nuclear weapon being detonated at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in 1946. Photo from the United States Government. Source: Flickr account of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. CC BY-NC 2.0 The...
Meet 6 Marshallese Female Activists Who Are Changing the World
Greenpeace International
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April 24, 2025
Across cultures and religions, there are various stories of creation and beginnings. In the Marshall Islands, creation began with three sisters: Liwatuonmour, Lidepdepju, and Lijileijet. Traveling on a canoe from the island of Ep/Uap in the west,...
Marshall Islands wins UN Human Rights Council seat with climate, nuclear justice agenda
RNZ
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October 10, 2024
By Stefan Armbruster, BenarNews President Hilda Heine at the 79th United Nations General Assembly with Marshall Islands diplomats, pictured on 24 September 2024. Photo: RMI Office of the President Marshall Islands was elected on Wednesday to sit...
Role of Republic of the Marshall Islands Arkansas Consulate expands
KUAF - Arkansas
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Anjanette Anjel was appointed Consul General last summer, officially taking office in September. For now, the position is interim, she said. "So far I've met with a lot of people and I enjoyed working with the people here. So if my government do...
Scientists search for ways to dispose of unexploded World War II bombs
Civil Engineering - Virginia
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(Image courtesy of Gettyimages.com/Serrnovik) By Kayt Sukel When asked to conjure a picture of Hawaii’s beaches, you likely think of pristine, clear waters and white sand, not a hundred thousand unexploded bombs littering the ocean floor just a...
Hawaiian Architect Joins Māori and Pacific Housing Research Centre at University of Auckland
TP+
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April 21, 2025
New Pacific housing research lead at MĀPIHI Dr James Miller. Photo: University of Auckland Indigenous Hawaiian architect and academic Dr James Miller will soon cross the globe to start a new role at the University of Auckland. Miller left a role...
Marshall Islands calls for global accountability on Climate, Nuclear testing, and Human rights at UNGA
Pasifika Environews
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September 26, 2024
The President of Marshall Islands, Dr Hilda Heine delivered a powerful address at the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), urging world leaders to confront the most pressing issues of climate change, nuclear legacy, and human rights. In a...
Marshall Islands calls for 'precautionary approach' to deep sea mining at UNGA
RNZ
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September 26, 2024
President Hilda Heine delivers Marshall Islands statement at the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. 25 September 2024 Photo: Screengrab / UN Web TV The Marshall Islands has told the United Nations General Assembly it...