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Pacific Islands reporting supported by the Judith Neilson Institute

28 December 2022

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  • Left: destruction caused by Cyclone Winston in Fiji in 2016; right: the village of Vunidogoloa rebuilt in a new location

    Revisited: the radical plan to move a country

    In this episode from November, Pacific editor Kate Lyons on Fiji’s ‘unprecedented’ national plan to relocate villages battling rising sea levels – and the true cost of leaving your home behind

5 December 2022

  • APEC Leaders Meeting Takes Place In Bangkok<br>BANGKOK, THAILAND - NOVEMBER 18: Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape enters the APEC Leaders Dialogue at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center on November 18, 2022 in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand is hosting the APEC meetings this year, which will culminate in the leaders' meetings which will run from Nov. 17 to 19. (Photo by Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images)

    Papua New Guinea can’t afford Australia and US standoff with China, James Marape warns

    PNG prime minister tells west ‘your enemy is not our enemy’ as he tries to steer clear of geopolitical struggle gripping the Pacific

4 December 2022

  • Nelly Bob Daniel, left, and Tasale Edward Bule sit together outdoors

    Left out of society: Vanuatu’s deaf community push for national sign language

    With no official sign language, the deaf community are left unable to communicate widely and vulnerable to natural disasters

28 November 2022

  • View of the famous Iririki luxury resort island just off the coast of Port Vila

    Vanuatu officials turn to phone books and typewriters, one month after cyber attack

    Government websites and email still offline, leading to delays in payments and services across the country

27 November 2022

  • Inosi Ravisa wading through Merremia peltata towards his breadfruit trees which have also become engulfed by the vine

    The Fijian island being strangled by vines

    Vanua Levu is being overrun by invasive vines – and the increasing number of natural disasters, brought on by climate change, is only making things worse

21 November 2022

  • Cop27 Climate Change Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh.

    Pacific leaders celebrate Cop27 victory on loss and damage fund after decades of advocacy

    Pacific countries have fought for fund to provide assistance to poor nations hit by climate disasters for three decades

18 November 2022

  • A crowd watches muscular shirtless dancers twirling flaming batons

    ‘What a time to be alive’: rugby league fever grips Samoa after team’s surprise World Cup run

    Houses have been painted blue and flags are sold out across the island country ahead of the grand final against Australia on Saturday at Old Trafford

17 November 2022

  • high-tide flooding in the Marshall Islands capital Majuro

    Guardian Australia wins Lowy Institute media award for An Impossible Choice climate podcast

    The podcast about the dilemmas facing Pacific Islanders won the Lowy award for best coverage of climate change

16 November 2022

  • A resident standing over the ruins of his house following Cyclone Winston in western Fiji's Tuvu Lautoka.

    Extreme weather fuels government oppression in island nations, study finds

    The increased frequency of natural disasters could lead to further rise in autocracies, according to new research

15 November 2022

  • Dogs follow Mere Ranedi at the Greater Good Sanctuary in Ba.

    Fiji dogged by strays after Covid breeding boom

    After neutering services were shut down during the pandemic, the population of stray dogs roaming the Pacific country has soared

13 November 2022

  • Fiji's plan to escape rising sea waters – video

    Relocating so many communities is astonishingly complex, expensive and emotional undertaking

8 November 2022

  • Left: destruction caused by Cyclone Winston in Fiji in 2016; right: the village of Vunidogoloa, which in 2014 became the first village in Fiji to be relocated.

    How to move a country: Fiji’s radical plan to escape rising sea levels

    In Fiji, the climate crisis means dozens of villages could soon be underwater. Relocating so many communities is an epic undertaking. But now there is a plan – and the rest of the world is watching

5 November 2022

  • Solomons officers holding rifles kneel in front of officials, with black police four-wheel-drives in background

    China and Australia must not turn Solomon Islands into a gun state again

    Dorothy Wickham in Honiara
    There are many things we need more than high-powered weapons – and we remember what happened last time police lost control of their guns

3 November 2022

  • An illustration of human bones including a skull strewn across a sandy beach with trees fallen and damaged in the background

    The climate crisis threatens to rob us not just of our living, but also of our dead

    Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson
    As Pacific nations face the prospect of losing entire islands, the thought of leaving behind the bones of our ancestors is unbearable

2 November 2022

  • An illustration of a digger extracting rock from an island which is mostly rocky but with some green trees and bushes

    No more drinking water, little food: our island is a field of bones

    Katerina Teaiwa
  • Australia has provided Solomon Islands police with MK18 rifles

    Australia delivers police vehicles and rifles to Solomon Islands in ‘game-changer’ donation

1 November 2022

  • Atoll nations have been described as strings of pearls floating in the ocean, but we are uniquely at risk from climate change.

    How do we mourn an island? Where do we mark its grave?

    Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner
    Atoll nations have been described as strings of pearls floating in the ocean, but we are uniquely at risk from climate change

31 October 2022

  • The sihek, or the Guam kingfisher, is a beautiful blue-gold songbird that’s been extirpated in the wild since the 1980s.

    On Guam there is no birdsong, you cannot imagine the trauma of a silent island

    Julian Aguon
    Climate change, invasive species and military expansion have formed an unholy trinity that threatens our small but ancient civilization

30 October 2022

  • Kate Lyons

    In my house is a Tuvaluan basket, a tiny piece of an island the world cannot fail

    Kate Lyons
  • Aerial photo of Solomon Islands industrial port featuring ships and clear, blue water

    Record support during Covid and declining funding from China: what new data on Pacific aid reveals

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