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Ortek Signs Deal with Islanders
2014-10-27 06:00:00| Happi Breaking News
Company makes oral care chews.
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Young Pacific islanders are not climate change victims
2014-09-22 11:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: On Tuesday, a young woman from the Marshall Islands will stand before the leaders of the world. Poet and performance artist Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner has one thing to say at the opening ceremony of the United Nations Climate Summit: I want to bring my peoples message out to the world, that climate change is a threat we need to take more seriously. Jetnil-Kijiner, 26, is one of just four people chosen to address the opening of Ban Ki-Moons global assembly in New York. Unlike 125 other world leaders,...
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Pacific Islanders reject 'climate refugee' status
2014-09-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Radio Australia: They have long been described as climate refugees: the hundreds of thousands of people living on low-lying Pacific islands who may be forced to migrate if rising sea levels leave their homes uninhabitable. But it is a term Pacific leaders say is loaded with political connotations and does not reflect the true dimensions of the problem. "They see [refugee] as a negative term that connotes victimhood and people in need of protection by the international community," Jane McAdam, director of the...
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Forgotten plight Australia Torres Strait islanders: land is being swallowed by rising sea
2014-08-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The islands which dot the sparkling waters of the Torres Strait, off the far north-east of Australia, were the birthplace of indigenous land rights. In 1992, five islanders led by Eddie Mabo won a landmark High Court case which erased the notion that Australia was unoccupied when the British arrived. But more than two decades on, the land for which they fought is being swallowed by the sea. The low-lying islands some of them closer to Papua New Guinea than the Australian mainland are at risk...
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Pacific Islanders call for tougher UN ocean laws
2014-08-01 07:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: The Pacific Islands say they will push for an agreement on ocean conservation at UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon`s climate summit in September. The Palau Declaration is the product of four days of discussions, which wrap up today, between Pacific Island states at their annual Forum. As Leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum, we have and will continue to play a central role in the stewardship of one of the greatest natural endowments in the world the Pacific Ocean, says the Declaration. ...