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Fiji Airways adds extra flight to Tuvalu
FBC News
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August 19, 2025
Fiji Airways has announced it will begin a second weekly service between Nadi and Funafuti, Tuvalu from this Friday. The new Friday flight adds to the current Monday schedule, giving passengers more flexibility for business, leisure and...
How to leave a sinking nation: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land
The Guardian
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August 14, 2025
In November 2022, Simon Kofe, then foreign minister of the island nation of Tuvalu, announced a sensational plan for his country’s survival. Climate breakdown poses an existential threat to small island-nations in the Pacific, but Tuvalu’s...
World plastic pollution treaty globally ends with no deal
Blueprint Newspapers Limited
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August 18, 2025
Countries have failed to find consensus on how the world should tackle the ever-growing scourge on plastic pollution globally. Negotiators from 185 nations worked beyond Thursday’s deadline and through the night in an ultimately futile search for...
Tuvalu is being lost to climate change. Other countries will likely follow.
The Week Magazine
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July 31, 2025
The island nation of Tuvalu is becoming the first country to be completely lost due to rising sea levels. However, the country is possibly only the first of many without actions taken to mitigate climate change. Country casualty Tuvalu, located in...
‘There’s no such thing as someone else’s children’ – Omar El Akkad bears witness to the destruction of Gaza and the west’s quiet assent
The Conversation
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August 18, 2025
Omar El Akkad does not want you to look away. An award-winning journalist and novelist, El Akkad was born in Egypt, lived as a teenager in Qatar and Canada, and migrated as an adult to the US, where he now lives with his family in the Pacific...
Tuvalu Is on Track to Become the First Country Lost to Climate Change. More Than 80% of the Population Apply to Relocate to Australia Under World’s First ‘Climate Visa’
ZME Science
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July 29, 2025
Bird’s-eye view of Tuvalu’s capital Funafuti. Credit: Flickr, UNDP Climate. The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, long known for its serene lagoons and tight-knit communities, is becoming the world’s first country to begin a planned relocation of...
World plastic pollution treaty talks end with no deal 減塑無共識 全球塑膠公約談判破局
Taipei Times
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August 18, 2025
Talks aimed at striking a landmark global treaty on plastic pollution fell apart Friday last week as countries failed to find consensus on how the world should tackle the ever-growing scourge. The talks in Geneva — called after the collapse of the...
Tuvalu begins historic climate migration as sea levels threaten future
Al Mayadeen
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July 27, 2025
Tuvalu launches first planned national migration due to sea level rise, with 280 citizens moving to Australia yearly under a new climate visa treaty. Tuvalu is poised to become the first nation to undergo a planned climate-induced migration, as...
Tuvalu PM Teo: Peace must begin at home'
The Pacific Island Times
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July 27, 2025
(PacNews)--Tuvalu Prime Minister, Feleti Teo says peace in the Pacific cannot be achieved while women live in fear and children experience abuse, urging leaders to embed gender equality and social inclusion into the heart of the region’s new Ocean...
Is Climate Change Forcing Tuvalu to Evacuate Forever?
Asume Tech
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August 2, 2025
As the world grapples with the realities of climate change, the small island nation of Tuvalu stands as a poignant example of what many communities face in the age of rising sea levels. Once hailed as a symbol of climate-related advocacy, Tuvalu...
The island that could disappear completely due to climate change: sea levels would rise and it would be underwater
MARCA
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August 17, 2025
Climate change and its consequences is one of the issues that most worries experts to such an extent that the levels of oceans and seas continue to rise due to melting ice, in addition to the increase in global temperatures and natural phenomena...
Pacific Island Nation Of Tuvalu May Go Under The Waves In 25 Years
StratNews Global
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August 1, 2025
Home Asia Pacific Island Nation Of Tuvalu May Go Under The Waves In 25... While the pacific island nation of Tuvalu is at a risk of being submerged, countries like Maldives and India are also feeling the heat of climate change and rising sea...
State Dept: Trump’s “Third Countries” for Immigrants Have Awful Human Rights Records
The Intercept
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July 29, 2025
The United States is building an unprecedented network of deportee dumping grounds, pursuing deals with around a third of the world’s nations to expel immigrants to places where they do not hold citizenship. Once exiled, these third-country...
Has high immigration fallen out of favour in Australia?
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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July 27, 2025
If you've spent any time on social media in recent years, you would have seen people criticising Australia's high levels of immigration, for various reasons. But in recent months, we've seen some of the most severe criticisms of high immigration...
Report to UN: New Zealand’s immigration system discriminates on disability grounds
Pacific News Service
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Ahead of New Zealand’s review with the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) highlight a clear pattern of discrimination pertaining to immigration from the Pacific – and recommend key policy...
New Australia-Vanuatu deal won’t replicate Falepili-style pact, says analyst
Asia Pacific Report
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August 18, 2025
A Pacific analyst and commentator says it is unlikely that Vanuatu will agree to any exclusive rights in the new security and economic pact with Australia.Senior ministers of both countries, including deputy prime ministers Richard Marles and...
Pacific Resilience Facility set for leaders signing in Honiara
Pacific News Service
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By Sanjeshni Kumar The Pacific Resilience Facility (PRF) is poised to become the region’s first Pacific-owned and led international financial institution, with Forum Leaders set to sign its establishing treaty at their meeting in Honiara, Solomon...
New Australia-Vanuatu deal won't replicate Falepili-style agreement - Pacific expert
RNZ
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August 17, 2025
Senior ministers from Australia and Vanuatu initialled the Nakamal Agreement at the top of Mount Yasur. (ABC News: Lillyrose Welwel) Photo: ABC News / Lillyrose Welwel A Pacific analyst and commentator says it is unlikely that Vanuatu will agree...
Major Plastics Treaty Ends in Failure
Gizmodo
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August 17, 2025
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Diplomats from around the world concluded nine days of talks in Geneva — plus a marathon overnight session that lasted into the early hours of Friday — with...
Plastic pollution treaty talks end without an agreement
The Rising Nepal
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Geneva, Aug. 16: Talks on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution in Geneva ended without an agreement Friday as the session was adjourned with plans to resume at a later date. Nations were meeting for an 11th day at the United...