PNG’s new coastal monitoring system to allow NMSA to understand and act on threats to maritime safety, security and the marine environment in busy shipping routes
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Pacific fisheries leaders emphasise building resilience and strengthening recovery in fisheries
Pacific fisheries leaders recognised the urgency to strengthen recovery and build resilience as the region struggles from COVID-19 alongside climate change effects on fisheries
Commonwealth countries pilot new tool to gauge climate and ocean risks
A new approach to allow commonwealth participating countries on the frontlines of the climate crisis to assess and tackle climate vulnerability and risks in coastal communities
Who will pay for the damage caused by climate change?
Talking about who is responsible for climate change is a fraught debate – even more so when it comes to who ought to pay for the damage it causes.
Great Pacific Garbage Patch now ‘an immense floating plastic habitat’
A giant patch of garbage in the Pacific Ocean is now “an immense floating plastic habitat” for marine animals clinging to its plastic debris, researchers have found
King tides wreak havoc on islands in Manus and East Sepik Province
The rise in sea level and king tides now affecting more than 30,000 lives on coastal Manus will continue through 2022, according to the Manus Province disaster office.
Pacific Ocean garbage patch is immense plastic habitat
Scientists have discovered marine animals living on plastic debris in an area of the open ocean dubbed “the Great Pacific Garbage Patch”.
‘Reimaanlok’: The Future of Community-led Ocean Conservation in Marshall Islands
Marshall Islands has set its sights on effectively managing 50% of its coastal resources by 2030
SWAP project pushes for cleaner Pacific Ocean
SWAP project to improve sanitation, environmental, social and economic conditions in Pacific Island Countries and Territories through proper waste management
International Coastal Clean-up Day
Participants collected more than 300kg volumes of trash of different types from the clean-up activity of the Vaiusu Mangrove Areas