After obtaining the appointment of a human rights expert on climate change, Marshall Islands is now seeking the UN rights body’s help to address the nuclear legacy
Tag: environment
Wacia – An Example Of Development Gone Wrong
Remnants from the Freesoul Real Estate Development (Fiji) PTE Limited development on Wacia on Malolo Island is a constant reminder of environmental developments gone wrong.
Anger as company gets go ahead to mine on seafloor
“Deep sea mining is now right upon our doorstep and is a threat to each and every one of us…” says campaigner as a company gets go-ahead to mine on the seafloor in the Pacific
NORI receives ISA recommendation to commence Pilot Nodule collection trials in the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean
International Seabed Authority recommended Nauru Ocean Resources Inc to proceed with its planned integrated pilot collection system trials in CCZ of the Pacific Ocean
Malolo ruins still worry many villagers
When they developed the area, our catch wasn’t like before. The number of fish and crabs we used to catch before all dropped.
Solid waste threatens fragile paradise of Gizo
The fragile paradise of Gizo, Solomon Islands, has been threatened by poor solid waste management and these are “found anywhere within Gizo shorelines to nearby coastal communities.”
Japan’s nuclear radioactive waste disposal plans are a fundamental breach of Pacific Peoples right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment: Pacific Groups
Pacific Groups describe Japan’s plan to proceed with the nuclear radioactive waste disposal without proper consultation with and consent from governments and people in the wider Pacific as “premature and unconscionable”
‘Missed opportunity’ as UN session on high seas biodiversity ends without agreement
Samoan delegate representing Pacific at the UN session on high seas biodiversity “disappointed” as negotiation ends without an agreement to protect biodiversity in the high seas
Invasive Species Practitioners work to protect biodiversity in the Kingdom of Tonga
Training allowed invasive species practitioners in Tonga to manage invasive weeds’ impact on biodiversity and ecosystems
Plastic has made it to the bottom of Fiji’s rivers; our environment is breaking down
Research finds microplastics in freshwater mussels or kai from the depths of Fiji’s five biggest rivers. “Now even river bed mussels are affected by the way we live,” writes marine biologist