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CLIMATE CHANGE
Washington, D.C. — This is a tough time to be a federal scientist—or any civil servant in the federal government. The Trump administration is clamping down on science, denying dangerous climate change and hollowing out the workforces of the agencies charged with protecting American health, safety...
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — Climate negotiators are facing an uphill battle heading into the latest United Nations climate talks in Poland next week.
Pledges from countries to meet the 2015 Paris Climate target, which is to keep the global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius...
Washington, D.C. — A new United States federal assessment on climate change shows that the economic, social and environmental effects in the US affiliated-islands of the Pacific could be catastrophic.
The National Climate Assessment, which is the result of four years of collaboration by about 300...
Apia, SAMOA — ‘First and worst’ is how environmental campaigners describe the impact of climate change on the people of Samoa in the South Pacific. The Polynesian nation of 200,000 people fears it will feel the full force of more frequent tropical cyclones, and that rising sea levels will drive...
Apia, SAMOA — Facing the increased effects of climate change, natural disasters, and the outsized impacts of global economic shocks on small economies, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) resolved to strengthen their efforts to achieve sustainable development at the conclusion of a three-day...
Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND — The message that Pacific people affected by climate change would rather stay in their homes than become refugees in New Zealand was reiterated by a panel at Canterbury University on Thursday.
The panel in Christchurch discussed New Zealand's response to Pacific climate...
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — The sea level is rising more in the South Pacific than in other regions, the author of a new book about the impact of climate change on coastlines says.
Neville Peat yesterday launched his book The Invading Sea which examines adaptation to the affects of climate-change in...
NEW YORK — Samoa's prime minister has joined other Pacific leaders in calling on the global community to unite and arrest the threat of climate change.
Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi made the call while addressing the United Nations.
He told the General Assembly that climate change was the over-...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The impact of climate change in American Samoa has been painted graphically by the US Coral Reef Task Force.
The Task Force has been holding workshops this week in Pago Pago.
Fatima Sauafea Leau of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric office in American Samoa said the...
Suva, FIJI — Fiji's chief climate negotiator says its important for the global community to hear from directly Pacific people facing the impact of climate change.
Fiji has the presidency of COP23, the current UN global conference round implementing the Paris Agreement.
Fiji is the first Small...