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These countries are sinking into the sea. What happens when they disappear forever?
The Independent
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August 29, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Expedition Launches to Chart the Most Unexplored Seafloor in US Waters
Deeper Blue
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September 2, 2025
The Ocean Exploration Trust has announced the launch of an expedition aboard its exploration vessel Nautilus to map some of the least-explored areas in US waters. The vessel is set for a 22-day mission to acquire high-resolution bathymetry around...
Refugees in Kansas and Missouri could lose SNAP benefits any day — and health care cuts are next
KRPS - Kansas
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September 3, 2025
For refugees, asylees and other immigrants who have sought safety in the United States, government food assistance could go away any day. Health care benefits will soon follow. After President Donald Trump's signature legislation passed in July...
6PAC+ prepares IMO submissions, demands just transition
Pacific News Service
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“We want to ensure the International Maritime Organisation is in alignment with principles of international environmental law and advances a just and equitable transition in the decarbonisation of international shipping.” That’s the message from...
US sanctions network for transporting Iranian oil as nuclear talks remain stalled
The Times of Israel
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September 2, 2025
The US Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned a network of shipping companies and vessels for smuggling Iranian oil disguised as Iraqi oil. The sanctions are the latest to come from the US as the administration of President Donald Trump aims to...
JMU completes delivery of new future-fit 159,097 dwt Suezmax tanker
Offshore Energy
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September 2, 2025
Yokohama-based shipbuilding company Japan Marine United Corporation (JMU) recently handed over an environmentally friendly 159,097 dwt Suezmax tanker to its owner. Courtesy of JMU According to JMU, the tanker—christened Advantage Smart—was...
Bordentown History: Knocking on the devil’s door
Community News - New Jersey
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This month marks 80 years since the official end of World War II. As a global conflict, the war drew families far from any active fighting into events occurring oceans away, due to the heroism and patriotism of their family members. One such...
Punching above its weight, Pacific pushes for ship polluters to pay
Pacific News Service
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By Robert Iroga in London Punching above our weight has been the statement echoed in London this week to describe the tiny Pacific’s bold push against some of the global heavyweights to have polluters (ship) pay-up for their pollution. This...
80 years since the end of World War II, a dangerous legacy lingers in the Pacific
The National Tribune
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September 1, 2025
On September 2, 1945, the second world war ended when Japan officially surrendered . Today, on the 80th anniversary, the physical legacy of the conflict remains etched into land and sea. Authors Stacey Pizzino Lecturer, School of Public Health,...
PIF expects to issue first “Ocean of Peace” Declaration amid nuclear and regional concerns
Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation
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September 2, 2025
By Alfred Pagepitu The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) is preparing to issue its first-ever declaration on “Ocean of Peace,” during the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Honiara next week. The declaration aims to reinforce regional commitments...
How Countries Globally Respond to Climate Migration
Costa Rica News
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September 1, 2025
In 1973, Komatsu Sakyō’s speculative novel Japan Sinks caused a stir. The author imagines Japan overwhelmed by natural disasters. Secret negotiations are taking place with other countries—including Australia—to rescue the population. Translated...
Pacific Island Nations are Divided Over Deep Sea Mining
The Maritime Executive
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[By Kolaia Raisele and Aidan Craney] In recent years, Pacific island nations have earned global credibility as champions of climate action. Pacific leaders view sea level rise as an existential threat. But this united front is now under strain as...
The Pacific’s united front on climate action is splintering over deep-sea mining
The Conversation
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August 31, 2025
In recent years, Pacific island nations have earned global credibility as champions of climate action. Pacific leaders view sea level rise as an existential threat. But this united front is now under strain as some Pacific nations pursue a...
The US threatens retaliation against states that will support the IMO Net Zero Framework
Materia Rinnovabile | Renewable Matter
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This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The United States announced that it will retaliate against countries that next October will confirm their support to the International Maritime...
Climate change is driving fish stocks from countries’ waters to the high seas: Study
Mongabay
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August 29, 2025
A new study found that more than half of the world’s straddling stocks will shift across the maritime borders between exclusive economic zones (EEZs) and the high seas by 2050. Most of these shifts will be into the high seas, where fisheries...
Take Control of Your Cash Flow: Proven Strategies for AR Leaders
CFO Dive
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Tiny Vanuatu steps up to protect the climate
Bangkok Post
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August 27, 2025
Although the International Court of Justice (ICJ) turned 80 this year, there is a sense in which it has never felt younger. In a David-versus-Goliath moment, the tiny Pacific Island state of Vanuatu recently changed international law forever by...
Kazakhstan’s Legacy, Global Voices Mark International Day Against Nuclear Tests
The Astana Times
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August 29, 2025
ASTANA — Aug. 29, designated as the International Day Against Nuclear Tests, carries special weight in Kazakhstan, where the Soviet Union once detonated more than 450 bombs at the Semipalatinsk test site. Born from Kazakhstan’s initiative at the...
Drowning nations: Kiribati and the South Pacific’s fight for survival
Irish Examiner
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August 29, 2025
When the tide comes in on Tarawa, the capital of Kiribati, it often spills straight into people’s homes. Saltwater seeps into wells, flooding gardens where staple crops like taro once thrived. Families wake to waves crashing closer and closer to...
Pacific Islands focus: health, environmental, security and geopolitical updates
Croakey Health Media
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August 28, 2025
Calls to tackle violence against women in the Pacific region, efforts to alleviate the impacts of extreme heat, new guidelines to assist in protection of whales, and concerns about deep sea mining are among the topics covered in the latest edition...