Niue has nearly exhausted its climate mitigation options and its focus now is on adaptation, the island's Premier Dalton Tagelagi says. Tagelagi told RNZ Pacific that Niue's contribution to global warming is one-thousandth of a percentage point (0.0001%) and they are already halfway to achieving their renewable energy target of...
I think someone else struggled with reefs, atolls were also a real hodgepodge, so this map for day 1️⃣ 6️⃣ of #30DayMapChallenge is more useful as a guide for cleaning data up in #Oceania than anything else.
I'd love to do a legend with overlapping circles to show the size (see @seav's map today), but have no idea how to do that in #QGIS (or even what the technique is called)
A sad chapter in the history of Oceania are the hundreds of nuclear tests that have been conducted by the #UnitedStates 🇺🇸, the #UnitedKingdom 🇬🇧, and #France 🇫🇷. This map shows the locations in #Australia 🇦🇺, the #MarshallIslands 🇲🇭, #Kiribati 🇰🇮, and #FrenchPolynesia 🇵🇫 where these three nations have detonated nuclear devices along with estimated yields in kilotons of TNT equivalent. #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki are also shown for comparison.
The United Kingdom is the latest country calling for a moratorium on deep sea mining, making it the 23rd nation wanting a precautionary pause. The call came just before the International Seabed Authority or ISA meeting in Kingston Jamaica, for the third part of its 28th session, that started last Monday....
Well, here's my #introduction to Mastodon. I'm a literary fiction writer and occasional journalist, currently travelling in #Oceania. Would love to connect with other writers, readers and anyone who cares about #books, and I'm up for some political and environmental discussions too. Happy to have found a corner of the web that feels something like what the web was meant to be.
FOR OVER three decades the Pacific island country of Tuvalu has implored industrialised countries to cut their greenhouse-gas emissions. For over three decades global temperatures have ticked up. Tuvalu’s government warns that its territory could slip underwater by the end of the century. “It’s a matter of disappearing...
Le Roof is a restaurant on stilts, with a room open to the lagoon. Above the water, at the end of the jetty, it welcomes people in a wooden decor with a contemporary style. At lunch or dinner, the spectacle of the sea, the fish and the…
At least 20 people were wounded when police used batons, water cannon and tear gas to disperse hundreds of people who joined rallies in Indonesia’s West Papua region on the 61st anniversary of an agreement that made the territory part of Indonesia, news agencies report....
‘What is your backup?’: Niue's premier says complete phase out of fossil fuels 'very hard' (www.rnz.co.nz)
Niue has nearly exhausted its climate mitigation options and its focus now is on adaptation, the island's Premier Dalton Tagelagi says. Tagelagi told RNZ Pacific that Niue's contribution to global warming is one-thousandth of a percentage point (0.0001%) and they are already halfway to achieving their renewable energy target of...
Fiji joins Pacific fight against measles and rubella (www.fijitimes.com)
Fiji is joining a regional immunisation action plan to eliminate measles and rubella in the Pacific....
Calls grow for moratorium on seabed mining (www.rnz.co.nz)
The United Kingdom is the latest country calling for a moratorium on deep sea mining, making it the 23rd nation wanting a precautionary pause. The call came just before the International Seabed Authority or ISA meeting in Kingston Jamaica, for the third part of its 28th session, that started last Monday....
Island nation of Tuvalu plans for its own disappearance under water (www.economist.com)
FOR OVER three decades the Pacific island country of Tuvalu has implored industrialised countries to cut their greenhouse-gas emissions. For over three decades global temperatures have ticked up. Tuvalu’s government warns that its territory could slip underwater by the end of the century. “It’s a matter of disappearing...
20 people wounded in Indonesian police crackdown on West Papua protest (asiapacificreport.nz)
At least 20 people were wounded when police used batons, water cannon and tear gas to disperse hundreds of people who joined rallies in Indonesia’s West Papua region on the 61st anniversary of an agreement that made the territory part of Indonesia, news agencies report....
Jack Woon’s TV show a delicious take on NZ-Chinese culture - The University of Auckland (www.auckland.ac.nz)
Apparently Malaysian-born? In any case, Kiwi Chinese cuisine sounds like something to check out!