Humanity must solve the climate and nature crises together or solve neither, according to a report from 50 of the world’s leading scientists. Global heating and the destruction of wildlife is wreaking increasing damage on the natural world, which humanity depends on for food, water and clean air. Many of the human activities causing the…
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Climate change is making ocean waves more powerful, threatening to erode many coastlines
Sea level rise isn’t the only way climate change will devastate the coast. Our research, published today, found it is also making waves more powerful, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere. We plotted the trajectory of these stronger waves and found the coasts of South Australia and Western Australia, Pacific and Caribbean Islands, East Indonesia and Japan, and…
Bikpela Bagarap Lon Sepik Wara
Many people living along the Sepik river have raised concerns of the serious destructions the Sepik river is facing with the movement of tug boats and pontoons on the river.
Inside the destruction of Asia’s last rainforest – BBC World Service
Indonesia is the world’s largest exporter of palm oil and in the last two decades, vast areas of forest have been cleared to make way for plantations.
Traditional knowledge helps Indigenous people adapt to climate crisis, research shows
This article is part of a series to celebrate World Oceans Day on June 8. Indigenous peoples, who make up 5% of the global population, are among the most vulnerable groups. They face issues ranging from poverty and human rights abuses to the climate crisis. Nevertheless, Indigenous peoples contribute significantly to biodiversity conservation and sustainable natural resources management. The do so, in both terrestrial…
Atmospheric CO2 Just Hit a Peak Not Seen on Earth in 4 Million Years
Peter Dockrill Despite slim hopes that global shutdowns during the pandemic might bring respite from the climate crisis, yet more evidence confirms that no such silver lining exists. Newly released measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in fact show that concentrations of the heat-trapping chemical have surged to record levels not seen by scientists…
MSG Secretariat Explores Options on Sustainable Use of Marine Ecosystem
PORT VILA, VANUATU (7 June 2021): The Melanesia Spearhead Group (MSG) Secretariat has begun virtual discussions on an MSG Climate Change proposal with Numer8 Analytics, a geo-data science company in an effort to promote the sustainable use of the region’s marine ecosystem. Acting Director General, George Hoa’au, said the talks were timely given that the…
Pacific storytelling with a focus on the ignored and ‘untold’ issues
By Pacific Media Watch – PROFILE: By Craig Major of AUT News Based at Auckland University of Technology, the Pacific Media Centre is a small team dedicated to telling stories from across the Pacific that you won’t read anywhere else. Established in 2007 by Professor David Robie in AUT’s School of Communication Studies, the centre focuses on postgraduate…
Horror torture in Hela
By MIRIAM ZARRIGA A WOMAN accused of killing a two-year-old boy through sorcery was assaulted, tortured and killed after her limbs were chopped off in Margarima, Hela, last month. According to Hela’s officer-in-charge CID Sgt Daniel Olabe, the woman was Mary Kopari who was in her late 30s. A video obtained by The National showed…
Decline in Languages Leads to Decline in Indigenous Biological Knowledge in Papua New Guinea
Fears of declining fluency among students in the most linguistically diverse place on earth ound the world, more than 7,000 languages are spoken, most of them by small populations of speakers in the tropics. Papua New Guinea (PNG), where nine million people speak 850 languages, is the most linguistically diverse place on Earth. Unfortunately, a…
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