Global warming threatens more than just coral

"Rising sea levels from global warming will threaten the livelihoods and homes of more than 200,000 people who live on coral atolls in coming generations, the PACNEWS reported on Monday. The warning came from Australia`s University of Queensland archaeologist and expert on...

Political Science

Henry Payne - Would you trust federal energy legislation that was written by Exxon-Mobil? No? Then you won't have much confidence in the process that just produced the much hyped "authoritative" global warming report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...

Inhabited Island Vanishes Beneath the Waves; Global Warming Blamed

Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth. The obliteration of Lohachara island, in India's part of the Sundarbans where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal, marks the...

Tiny island states seek help from rising Pacific (Reuters)

" NADI, Fiji (Reuters) - As the rising Pacific Ocean laps at their doorsteps, tiny Tuvalu and Kiribati fear becoming environmental refugees and said major greenhouse gas emitters Australia and the United States have a moral obligation to help. Aid and scientific groups have...

Prostitution and Pacific fishing

"Fishing and prostitution might be the two oldest professions. But the exploitation of both is creating new vulnerabilities for Pacific islands as the whole world increasingly comes to fish in its waters. Ben Bohane reports from Kiribati. The deck of the Taiwanese...