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Pacific islands

August 2024

  • Boys, one pushing a wheelbarrow, carry big plastic containers to collect water, Vanuatu.

    The rising ocean
    ‘The wells are salty’: how the invading ocean is contaminating Vanuatu’s water

    As the climate crisis causes the Pacific to rise, the archipelago’s water is increasingly unsafe to drink
  • Tarawa atoll, Kiribati

    Kiribati’s pro-China government faces test as election begins

    Climate change, living costs and China ties in focus as president Taneti Maamau seeks to extend his tenure in the Pacific country

    • Vanuatu presidential palace funded by China stirs debt fears

    • Slingshots and metal darts see tribal violence ‘horrors’ worsen in Papua New Guinea

    • Much cagou about something: New Caledonia’s favourite bird thriving after conservation push

July 2024

  • A long thin atoll around a lagoon

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Inside the battle for top job that will decide the future of deep-sea mining

  • The Australian foreign minister, Penny Wong

    Wong announces new digital cable centre to limit China’s influence in Indo-Pacific

  • Aerial view of glacier ice floating in the sea

    Man dies after trying to drive truck on to NSW ferry; global sea ice levels hit record low – as it happened

  • Deadly violence has erupted in Papua New Guinea, as the result of a dispute over land

    At least 26 killed in Papua New Guinea village attacks, including 16 children

  • ‘Our whole country is behind them’: Samoa’s weightlifters chasing Olympic glory

  • Fiji wrestles with need for outside help on security, at risk to its own sovereignty

  • ‘Left by the wayside’: New Caledonia MP vows to take Indigenous frustrations to Paris

  • Mapped: the vast network of security deals spanning the Pacific, and what it means

  • New Caledonia: historic win for pro-independence candidate in French elections

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘We rarely see them now’: just how vulnerable are Vanuatu’s dugongs?

June 2024

  • A pro-independence supporter waves a flag on the side of a road ahead of French parliamentary elections in Nouméa, New Caledonia

    ‘We need calm’: New Caledonia prepares for France elections as tensions simmer

    Both pro-independence and pro-France voters are unhappy with the status quo after deadly riots
  • Cameramen crowd around Julian Assange as he makes his way to a car on the way out of Saipan’s airport

    ‘I don’t know who Assange is’: global media circus bemuses sleepy Saipan

    The tiny US Pacific territory is not used to the spotlight – but all that changed with the WikiLeaks founder’s arrival

    • Fresh unrest in New Caledonia after independence activists flown to France for detention

    • Easter Island study casts doubt on theory of ‘ecocide’ by early population

    • The alternatives
      How the small Pacific island nation of Vanuatu drastically cut plastic pollution

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