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Guam

June 2024

  • Two people stand and talk in a flooded street surrounded by trees

    Rising sea levels will disrupt millions of Americans’ lives by 2050, study finds

    Floods could leave coastal communities in states like Florida and California unlivable in two decades

August 2023

  • The USS Oklahoma City at the naval base in Guam in August 2021.

    Pacific islands warn US over Chinese threat and urge Biden to increase aid

    GOP-led House committee convenes on Guam as officials say Beijing working to ‘fill perceived voids in America’s assistance’

July 2023

  • THAAD missile launch in Guam.

    Pacific project
    Guam fears becoming ‘target’ over planned $1.5bn US defence system

    Proposed air and missile defences raise ire of residents who are also concerned about environmental impacts

May 2023

  • An overturned truck in Guam, after Typhoon Mawar passed over the island.

    Pacific project
    ‘Perfect storm of chaos’: A week after Typhoon Mawar, most of Guam still without basic services

    With no power, water or internet across large areas, frustration is building in the US territory over what is seen as a slow response to the crisis
  • Fallen tree branches litter a neighbourhood in Yona, Guam, on Thursday

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: Guam narrowly avoids worst of Typhoon Mawar

    Wind and rain bring island to a standstill but eye replacement cycle weakens super typhoon temporarily

    • Typhoon Mawar tears through Guam, leaving most of island without power

    • China-backed hackers spying on US critical infrastructure, says Five Eyes

    • Weather tracker
      Weather tracker: Guam and Philippines brace for Typhoon Mawar

October 2022

  • The sihek, or the Guam kingfisher, is a beautiful blue-gold songbird that’s been extirpated in the wild since the 1980s.

    Before it is lost
    On Guam there is no birdsong, you cannot imagine the trauma of a silent island

    Julian Aguon
  • A pedestrian in Tokyo stops to watch a screen showing the course taken by the North Korean missile fired over Japan on Tuesday.

    North Korea has fired another ballistic missile, South says

September 2022

  • A US military helicopter flies over the waters of Agana Bay in Hagatna, Guam.

    The Pacific project
    In Guam, even the dead are dying: the US military is building on the graves of our ancestors

    My beautiful home of Guam is being laid waste by a superpower – even the butterflies are in danger

September 2021

  • High rates of infections, despite high vaccination rates, have led to fear and uncertainty in Guam

    The Pacific project
    Guam’s vaccination success story turns grim with Covid surge

  • Three students of Michael Lujan Bevacqua's CHamoru language classes hold up CHamoru dictionaries.

    The Pacific project
    ‘It restores my soul’: pandemic offers unexpected boon to Guam indigenous language learners

  • Tumon Bay in Guam

    The Pacific project
    Guam court clears the way for ‘tele-abortion’ in boost for reproductive rights

  • Children wear masks as they head to school in Sejong, South Korea.

    From vaccine mandates to a chatting ban: how schools in the Asia Pacific are managing Delta

July 2021

  • Travellers board flights from Taipei

    The Pacific project
    Air VnV: sold-out flights start from Taiwan to Guam for ‘vacation and vaccination’ trips

    About 170 people, some wearing hazmat suits, were the first to fly to the Pacific island for a holiday with a Covid twist

June 2021

  • FILE -- This Aug. 14, 2017 file photo shows Tumon Bay near Hagåtña, Guam. The 1941 Japanese invasion of Guam, which happened on the same December day as the attack on Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor, set off years of forced labor, internment, torture, rape and beheadings. Now, more than 75 years later, thousands of people on Guam, a U.S. territory, are expecting to get long-awaited compensation for their suffering at the hands of imperial Japan during World War II. (AP Photo/Tassanee Vejpongsa, File)

    The Pacific project
    ‘Vax-n-win’: Guam launches lottery prize for vaccine recipients

    Governor announces online lottery which offers $10,000 in cash, a brand-new car and other small prizes each week

April 2021

  • Artefacts removed from historic sites at Finegayan in Dededo, northern Guam

    The Pacific project
    Ancient human remains found at site of new US military base in Guam prompts investigation

  • Corals get their bright colors from algae within them. When corals live under stress, they expel the algae and turn pale white, leaving them starving but not dead, yet.

    Nasa scientists find unlikely tool as rising temperatures bleach corals: a phone app

March 2021

  • Historically, it has not been easy to access abortions on Guam despite them being legal, due to stigma and past restrictive laws

    Guam moves closer to restoring abortion access after ACLU lawsuit

    It’s been impossible to get an abortion on the island since 2018, and the closest legal clinic is in Hawaiʻi
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