CLIMATE CHANGE
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A New Zealand government-backed regional climate mobility program has been launched to help ensure Pacific people remain at the centre of decisions about their homes and futures in the face of climate change.
The NZ$17.9 million Pacific Climate Mobility Partnerships...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As dengue fever infections hit their highest level in a decade and several countries declare emergencies, the climate crisis is driving a sharp rise in dengue fever cases across the Pacific islands, experts say.
Pacific Island countries and territories have reported 16,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 3.6 million residents of U.S. territories are among the communities in the United States most impacted by climate change. Yet without voting representation in Congress, a vote for President, or representation in regional and international bodies, their ability to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Tongan researcher from the University of Waikato found that in the Pacific region, particularly in Tonga and Samoa, people don't want to move despite what she calls the "stigma" associated with climate change.
Lora Vaioleti conducted research alongside the University...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Extreme low tides and coral bleaching exacerbated by global climate change, are causing widespread loss of coral, according to the Dept. of Marine & Wildlife Resources (DMWR), which is calling for collaboration between communities, governments, and conservation...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Climate change is the major focus of the administration when reporting on the State of the Environment in its 2024 State of the Territory Comprehensive Report. It reports that “climate change is an imminent reality with extensive global, regional, and local consequences...
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — A young Samoan climate activist says the UN's new guidance on children's rights to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is "the first step to global change".
The UN Committee have affirmed for the first time that climate change is affecting children's rights to life...
Sydney, AUSTRALIA — Samoa assumed a leadership role in January this year as chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), the negotiating bloc for small island developing states. Samoa is well placed to elevate the experience of Pacific Islands to influence global support on climate change...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S. Department of Commerce has recommended $203,000 for a project in American Samoa to make communities and the economy more resilient to climate change, as part of the Investing in America agenda.
The project announced last week by Vice President Kamala Harris will...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A report on Climate Change in the Western Pacific recently released by the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council drills down on the effects of climate change on American Samoa and warns that the loss of StarKist and the tuna industry due to the implications...