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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...
Ocean acidification threatens Niue’s coral reefs: a call for global action
Ocean Acidification
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August 6, 2025
Ocean acidification threatens Niue’s coral reefs: a call for global action Published 6 August 2025 Web sites and blogs Leave a Comment Tags: corals, South Pacific Ocean acidification, driven by anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions, poses a...
Renewed hope: Why the ICJ climate decision matters to us all
Islands Business
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July 27, 2025
OFFICIALS have reached consensus on the long-standing South Pacific Albacore (SPA) tuna allocation within the Exclusive Economic Zones of Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) members south of the equator. This breakthrough comes after nearly two decades...
24th Forum Fisheries Committee Ministerial Meeting Concludes In Niue
Scoop
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A group photo of the Forum Fisheries Committee Ministerial at the conclusion of the three-day meeting in Niue (Photo/Supplied) ALOFI, NIUE, 24 JULY 2025 – The 24th Forum Fisheries Committee (FFC) Ministerial Meeting and the 6th Regional Fisheries...
Pacific Tourism Organisation and Niue Tourism Office Release Key Insights from Niue Community Attitude Survey
Pacific Tourism Organisation
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July 22, 2025
The Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO), through its Pacific Tourism Data Initiative (PTDI), has completed the Community Attitudes Survey (CAS) for Niue, delivering important insights into public sentiment around tourism development and its...
Pacific Fisheries Ministers Focus On Ocean Future In Niue
Scoop
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“Are we standing strong together? It’s a thoughtful question to reflect on as we meet this week – how do we continue reinforcing our unity and shared purpose across the region?” said the Prime Minister of Niue, Hon. Dalton Tagelagi, as he...
Pacific Celebrates The Voices Of Women In Fisheries At The Fisheries Ministers Meeting In Niue
Scoop
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Women working behind the scenes across the Pacific fisheries sector were celebrated in Niue last night, as the latest edition of Moana Voices was honoured during the opening ceremony of the 24th Forum Fisheries Committee Ministerial Meeting...
Pacific region sets out climate targets at UN Bonn dialogue
Pacific Community (SPC)
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At the UN climate talks in Bonn, Pacific nations called for urgent and fairer climate finance to deliver NDC3.0, warning that delays are costing lives and stalling action. Pacific Island countries are calling for faster and fairer access to...
French scientists map plankton, the ocean’s mysterious oxygen factories
Modern Ghana
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French scientists are mapping plankton across the Indo-Pacific – using Navy ships to study the microscopic organisms that produce half of Earth's oxygen, feed the ocean and help regulate the planet's carbon. The eight-year mission is charting life...
Who’s who at the plastics treaty talks, from delegates to lobbyists
Grist Magazine
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August 8, 2025
As delegates from around the world have negotiated a global plastics treaty over five sessions since 2022, alliances have emerged among nations, across civil society, and throughout the private sector. Some countries have banded together in...
Delegates arrive for Conference of Pacific Bishops
Talanei
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August 5, 2025
Delegates to the Episcopal Conference of the Pacific, CEPAC, started arriving on Sunday. Among the first arrivals was his Eminence Cardinal Soane Patita Paini Mafi of the Diocese of Tonga and Niue. Cardinal Mafi is a distinguished figure in the...
Cardinal Soane Patita Mafi presides over local Catholic celebrations
Samoa News
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August 5, 2025
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Catholic Diocese of Pago Pago had the honor of welcoming this week, His Eminence Cardinal Soane Patita Paini Mafi of the Diocese of Tonga and Niue. Cardinal Mafi is a distinguished figure in the Catholic Church,...
Visa-Free Entry: 44 Countries Lebanese Passport-Holders Can Travel To Hassle-Free
MENAFN
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August 5, 2025
(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Want to travel to the chilly mountains of Georgia or roam amongst Rwanda's impeccable wildlife? Lebanese passport-holders can do it all as citizens of the Middle Eastern country can now travel to 44 nations across the...
Pacific Islands News Roundup – August 1 – August 7, 2025
Pacific Islands Report
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August 8, 2025
Editor’s Note: We are undergoing a web host migration process and may need to make necessary modifications to our format and frequency over the next several weeks. Thank you in advance for your understanding. Political Leadership and Regionalism,...
Courage, not compromise – Pacific SIDS call for ambition ahead of…
Pacific News Service
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With plastic pollution at crisis levels, delegates from 14 Pacific Island countries have arrived in Geneva, Switzerland, with one clear message for the world: courage, not compromise. Only a bold, comprehensive, and legally binding treaty that...
With Five Eyes on China, FBI Bulks Up in New Zealand
Consortium News
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August 7, 2025
Mick Hall covers the upgrade of the U.S. intelligence agency’s Wellington operation to “counter the CCP” as another milestone of U.S. meddling in the Asia-Pacific. Demonstrators in Aukland on Saturday protest against the F.B.I. expanding its...
VIDEO: New Zealand's Air Force Performs 'Daring' Rescue of Americans from Antarctica
Breitbart
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August 7, 2025
The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) rescued three Americans from Antarctica during a risky overnight operation on Tuesday. The medical evacuation was conducted in freezing temperatures and complete darkness, Fox News reported on Wednesday....
Fiji welcomes breakthroughdeal on South Pacific Albacore management
Pacific News Service
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Fiji’s Minister for Fisheries, Alitia Bainivalu, has welcomed a major regional breakthrough on the sustainable management of South Pacific Albacore, calling it a “historic milestone” for the country’s tuna industry. “This is a landmark...
Your voice will be heard- opening message at inaugural Pacific
Television Niue
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August 7, 2025
By Gustava Esther Pavihi Thursday 7th August, 2025, Taumeasina– More than twenty young people from across the Pacific are in Samoa this week for the first Pacific Youth Dialogue on Loss and Damage with the theme ‘Providing our Pacific youth with...
The real Cook Island questions Winston wont answer
The Daily Blog
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August 6, 2025
Another brilliant column by Lloyd Burr… Winston Peters’ adviser tells media to ask ‘questions that aren’t about politics’ It’s not often reporters are told not to ask any political questions when they’re at a press conference with two politicians....