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Vanishing giants: The Indian Ocean’s biggest fish need saving (commentary)
Mongabay
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June 25, 2025
New research confirms the decline of predatory and large-bodied fishes in the western Indian Ocean due to overfishing, unregulated fishing practices and climate change. The lead author of a new paper published in the journal Conservation Biology...
Heading for Honiara 2025: Ts and Cs of the Pacific Islands Forum
Pacific News Service
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A drop of Taiwan, a measure of China, makes heady cocktail for next PIF leaders meeting. Commentary by Tess Newton Cain As the 53rd meeting of Pacific Islands Forum leaders drew to a close in Nuku’alofa, there were good reasons for sighs of...
Trump’s Mineral Policy Offers Strategic Opportunity in the Pacific
The Gateway Pundit
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July 4, 2025
Credit: FOX Sunday Morning Futures screenshot A seabed mining agreement with the island nation of Nauru would reduce China’s influence while establishing America as an industry authority This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire. By...
Words into Action The Science–Policy–Society Ecosystem for Disaster Risk Reduction
PreventionWeb
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August 30, 2024
Themes - Any - Advocacy and media Capacity development Children and Youth Civil Society/NGOs Climate change Community-based DRR Critical infrastructure Cultural heritage Disaster risk management Early warning Economics of DRR Education and school...
After 32 years, Prof. Bill Donner returns to Sikaiana.
Tavuli News
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July 4, 2025
In a touching cultural homecoming, the Sikaiana people yesterday welcomed back American anthropologist Professor Bill Donner — 32 years after he last lived among them. Now based at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, Prof. Donner spent more than...
Teacher Statistics By Education Level, Demographics, Country Wise Time Spend, Salary, Workload, Grade Level, Social Media, Shortage, Vacancy, Reason of Leaving Job and Technology Trends
Hollywood Gazette
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August 30, 2024
Teachers are an indispensable part of our society, facing numerous challenges worldwide. They play a crucial role in educating millions of children each year, from elementary education to higher degrees.In 2023, concerns have been raised about a...
Minister Wasi says agriculture backbone of economies
Solomon Star
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June 17, 2025
Agriculture remains the backbone of many countries including Solomon Islands because its vital to livelihoods, food security and national development. This was highlighted by the Minister responsible for the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock...
Global eco forum in China's Guiyang highlights green transformation
Xinhua News Agency
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GUIYANG, July 5 (Xinhua) -- Eco Forum Global Guiyang 2025, China's only national-level international forum dedicated to ecological civilization, kicked off on Saturday in Guiyang, the capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province. This year's...
Kogala Tribal Rangers conducted baseline biodiversity assessment
The Islandsun
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June 18, 2025
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU The Kogala Tribal Rangers, with Solomon Islands Rangers Association support, recently carried out a two-day comprehensive baseline biodiversity assessment in the Kogala Tribe Forest Conservation area in Makaruka Village,...
Pacific Economic Update: Slowing Growth Highlights Need for More Inclusive Workforce
Odisha Diary
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June 17, 2025
HONIARA, June 17, 2025 — Economic growth is slowing across the Pacific as countries face weak global growth, natural hazards and climate related shocks. The World Bank’s flagship Pacific Economic Update, released today in Honiara, projects...
Pacific Island Nations Announce Plans for Indigenous-Led Melanesian Ocean Reserve, a World First
EcoWatch
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June 16, 2025
The Melanesian Ocean Reserve, led by the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu governments with the Islands Knowledge Institute and Nia Tero. The Melanesian Ocean Reserve Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper,...
Slowing growth faces Pacific, need for more inclusive workforce highlighted
Solomon Star
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June 17, 2025
HONIARA — Economic growth is slowing across the Pacific as countries face weak global growth, natural hazards and climate related shocks. The World Bank’s flagship Pacific Economic Update, released on Tuesday in Honiara, projects regional growth...
Sterling K. Brown’s ‘Washington Black’ Dares to Dream in Globe-Trotting Adventure
TV Insider
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July 3, 2025
It was the joy. That’s what attracted three-time Emmy winner Sterling K. Brown to this thrilling, globe-trotting adventure story of George Washington “Wash” Black, who escaped from a childhood of enslavement on a 19th-century Barbados sugar...
Analysis: Trump’s Mineral Policy Offers an Important Strategic Opportunity in the Pacific
The Virginia Star
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July 4, 2025
by Wyatt J. Greco In an April 2025 executive order, President Trump affirmed that offshore critical minerals are key to creating supply chains that do not depend on adversaries like the People’s Republic of China. While US leadership on deep-sea...
Lion Group Holding Makes Strategic Investment of Agunua Technology, to Explore New Opportunities in Carbon Finance
Asiaone
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August 19, 2024
HONG KONG, Aug. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Lion Group Holding Ltd. ("Lion" or "the Company") (NASDAQ: LGHL), the operator of an all-in-one trading platform that offers a wide spectrum of products and services, announced today that it entered into a...
AIRPORT EXTENSION COULD BE BUILT FOR HALF THE COST
Solomon Star
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June 24, 2025
IT has emerged that the proposed extension of the Honiara International Airport, formerly Henderson International Airport, could be built for half the price if the project is put on public tender. The proposed project would see an additional 800...
More Pacific voices needed in climate literature - researcher
RNZ
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August 15, 2024
Coastal homes in Tuvalu, Funafuti pictured on November 28, 2019. The low-lying South Pacific island nation of about 11,000 people has been classified as "extremely vulnerable" to climate change by the United Nations Development Programme due to...
Burnet Expands Its Airborne Diseases Research
The National Tribune
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August 7, 2024
Courtesy of Burnet Institute Burnet is drawing upon more than ten years of tuberculosis (TB) research to find new ways of reducing the transmission and ongoing impacts of airborne infections – a major contributor to deaths, illness and global...
Albanese to use a former PM John Curtin memorial speech to define Australia’s sovereignty in US-Alliance
The West Australian
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July 4, 2025
Anthony Albanese is expected to use a speech in Sydney on Saturday to draw parallels between Australia’s foreign policy under his government with that of war-time PM John Curtin. Marking the 80th anniversary of the Labor leader’s death, Mr...
Team Guam athletics ready to run in Palau Mini Games
The Guam Daily Post
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With the 12th Pacific Mini Games underway in Koror, Palau, Team Guam’s athletics contingent will begin its medal quest on Friday. Ahead of the competition, which has attracted more than 1,500 athletes from 24 nations, Guam’s athletics team had one...