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Nauru starts selling passports to fund climate action
The Manila Times
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August 7, 2025
SYDNEY, Australia — A remote Pacific nation has started selling passports to fund climate action, but is so far struggling to attract new citizens to the low-lying, largely barren island. Pacific microstate Nauru, one of the world’s smallest...
Samoa hints at Forum snub
Islands Business
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August 7, 2025
NEGOTIATIONS are underway in the Cook Islands as the United States seeks a deal which will allow for the exploration of seabed minerals. In an agreement signed on August 5, the US and Cook Islands governments agreed to affirm their “commitment to...
Pacific microstate Nauru sells first passports to fund climate action
Inquirer
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August 7, 2025
This photograph taken on September 2, 2018 shows a beach view in Ewa on the Pacific island of Nauru. FILE PHOTO/Agence France-Presse SYDNEY — A remote Pacific nation has started selling passports to fund climate action, but is so far struggling to...
Pacific microstate sells passports to fund climate action
Bangkok Post
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August 7, 2025
Nauru offering ‘climate resilience citizenship’ for $105,000 PUBLISHED : 7 Aug 2025 at 10:45 SYDNEY - A remote Pacific nation has started selling passports to fund climate action, but is so far struggling to attract new citizens to the low-lying,...
Pacific youth called to define their own climate story
Pacific News Service
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By Sanjeshni Kumar in Apia “You today are exactly where you are built to be.” The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Climate Change Resilience Director, Tagaloa Cooper shared these words of encouragement with...
Pacific Microstate Sells First Passports To Fund Climate Action
International Business Times
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August 7, 2025
A remote Pacific nation has started selling passports to fund climate action, but is so far struggling to attract new citizens to the low-lying, largely barren island. Pacific microstate Nauru, one of the world's smallest nations, has a novel plan...
New Zealand extends aid to Samoa amid deadly dengue outbreak
Daijiworld News
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Daijiworld Media Network - Wellington Wellington, Aug 6: New Zealand has extended its support to Samoa following a serious dengue fever outbreak that has claimed the lives of five children. In a statement on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Winston...
Opinion | Environmental Law Is Changing in Defense of the Planet and the Climate
Mississippi Free Press
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August 6, 2025
While the dangerous effects of climate change continue to worsen, legal efforts to address a range of environmental issues are also on the rise. Headlines across the globe tout many of these legal actions: South Korea’s Climate Law Violates Rights...
New Zealand Sends Aid To Samoa Amid Deadly Dengue Outbreak
MENAFN
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August 6, 2025
(MENAFN- IANS) Wellington, Aug 6 (IANS) New Zealand has pledged support to Samoa amid a severe dengue outbreak that has so far claimed the lives of five Samoan children.Acknowledging the close ties between the two nations, New Zealand Foreign...
Dengue takes 2 from Samoa family
Islands Business
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August 5, 2025
THE main independence coalition in New Caledonia, the Front de Libération Nationale Kanak et Socialiste (FLNKS), will hold an extraordinary Congress on August 9 August, to debate the Bougival agreement and the way forward on decolonisation. The...
How rising seas are threatening the crucial art of weaving in Samoa
The Guardian
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August 6, 2025
In the Samoan village of Neiafu, Amio Pei Ioane sits with a group of women in a weaving house. Around her, rolls of stripped pandanus leaves, the spiky-leaved plant used to make woven mats, rest in bundles. She began weaving when she was 15,...
Four confirmed and one probable dengue-related death in Samoa
RNZ
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August 5, 2025
Photo: 123RF The Samoan government says more than 5600 clinically diagnosed dengue cases have been recorded since January. Of these, 2619 are laboratory-confirmed. An outbreak of the disease was declared in April. In a press statement delivered by...
Mallika Sarma studying extreme environments from spaceflights to Philly heat
The American Bazaar
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August 4, 2025
Mallika Sarma, an Indian American anthropology professor in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, is studying extreme environments from human spaceflight to heat in Philadelphia. With a background in human biology—an...
Bocadillo Market Reopens, Aya Pastry Closing And More West Town Restaurant News
Block Club Chicago - Illinois
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August 7, 2025
WEST TOWN — A Spanish sandwich and tapas restaurant that previously called Lincoln Park home has relaunched in West Town, but only for coffee and lunch at the moment. Bocadillo Market, 1117 W. Grand Ave., held a grand opening Friday. Chef James...
'Let's make football safe, not sorry'
Pacific Media Network
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Sāmoa Football is setting an example in the Pacific when it comes to keeping young players safe. With the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) Under-16 Women’s Championship underway in Apia, Sāmoa Football is ensuring a secure experience for...
Forestry cash boost sparks jobs
FBC News
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August 7, 2025
The government is scaling up its forestry subsidy program to grow forest-based businesses especially in rural areas. Forestry Minister Alitia Bainivalu states the scheme now supports small wood enterprises with a turnover below $1.25 million...
Bay Oval to host first ever musical festival
SunLive
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August 7, 2025
Bay Oval is the place to be next Waitangi weekend as the Mount Maunganui venue hosts Kingston Calling 2026 – with headline act UB40 featuring Ali Campbell – on Saturday, February 7. Brought to town by Mai FM and Fabrik NZ, Kingston Calling 2026 is...
Marine climate interventions can have unintended consequences – we need to manage the risks
The Conversation
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August 1, 2025
The world’s oceans are being rapidly transformed as climate change intensifies. Corals are bleaching, sea levels are rising, and seawater is becoming more acidic – making life difficult for shellfish and reef-building corals. All this and more is...
When the Law Catches Up: How a Youth-Led Call From the Pacific Is Redefining Environmental Justice
Earth.Org
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August 1, 2025
“In the face of threats to international law and the growing tendency to sweep climate change off the political agenda, there has been an urgent need for legal clarity on the obligations of states,” writes Léa Weimann, co-lead of Youth for Ecocide...
Samoa Represented at World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights
Samoa Global News
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July 28, 2025
28 July 2025, Cambridge, UK. SVSG President Siliniu Lina Chang, and Samoa Police Assistant Commissioner Papalii Efo Moalele, are in the UK representing Samoa at the World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights. Their attendance in Cambridge,...