Reuters: An abandoned airstrip overgrown with weeds marks the entrance to this village of 400 people on Guadalcanal, the largest of the Solomon Islands. Since January, it has been home to the Solomon's first automatic weather station, a device that may help the Pacific archipelago nation bear up to climate change.
"This is the first time we can know what is happening on the other side (of the island) in real time,' said David Hiriasia, director of the government's meteorology department. "Before we could...