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Climate crisis and the Israeli war on Gaza

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Climate crisis: The carbon footprint of the Gaza genocide

January 23, 2025

Auckland's Mt Eden shot tower

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Historic shot tower to be demolished as storm risk

Saki landslide

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PNG Prime Minister Marape visits Saki landslide disaster site

Saki landslide

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Bad weather hampers PNG landslide relief – two bodies found, 13 missing

Marshall Islands firefighters try to contain the Nitijela (Parliament) fire

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‘All destroyed’: Fire engulfs Marshall Islands parliament complex

The flag of Hawai'i waves beside a sign reading "Tourist(s) Keep Out" in the aftermath of the Maui wildfires

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Native Hawai’ian official blames colonisation, climate change for wildfires

August 18, 2023

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‘Play for our people’ call by Southern Highlands musicians after PNG...

March 3, 2018

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Ambae volcano ‘more stable’, say Vanuatu’s monitoring scientists

October 2, 2017

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Massive Cyclone Pam disaster aid – good intentions but much unusable

February 19, 2018

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Shortwave radio saves lives and foreign aid dollars, says McGarry

August 4, 2018

The Waipaoa River, near Gisborne 140223

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Severity of damage ‘not seen in a generation’, says...

February 15, 2023

Motorists try to flee a tsunami wave on the foreshore in the Tongan capital of Nuku'alofa

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Tonga volcano eruption and tsunami – 120 evacuated in NZ’s Far...

January 16, 2022

Fiji's Viliame Gavoka and AG Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum

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SODELPA leader blasts PM, Attorney-General over Fiji covid ‘recklessness’

July 6, 2021

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Fiji police chief warns parents to ‘be sensible’ over child safety

February 23, 2016

Lord of the Flies . . . by Mr Fish

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Chris Hedges: The last chapter of the Gaza Strip genocide

March 25, 2025

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Hundreds more NZ unaccounted for now located

February 22, 2023

Volunteers help residents in Auckland's Mt Roskill to clear up after the flash floods hit the city last weekend

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NZ Greens back call for rent controls after Auckland flash floods

February 3, 2023

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PNG’s earthquake death toll in Highlands now tops 75

March 6, 2018

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Fiji death toll rises to 5 as Winston leaves devastation

February 21, 2016

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Tropical cyclone Winston leaves trail of destruction, 1 dead as Fiji...

February 21, 2016

Tsunami flooding in the Tongan capital of Nuku'alofa

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New tsunami warning in NZ, Samoa as volcano waves hit Tonga’s...

January 15, 2022

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Death toll in Indonesia’s Lombok quake rises to 91

August 6, 2018

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Danger lurks but tales of heroism are emerging, says Fiji Times...

February 24, 2016

An Uncle Sam puppet with blood on his hands held aloft by pro-Palestinian protesters in Auckland, New Zealand

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Israel backing Gaza ‘gangs’ to create unlivable chaos, says academic

August 2, 2025

Red Tsounga with the volunteer team from the Whānau Hub

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Gallery: After Auckland’s flash floods, it’s community clean-up time

February 5, 2023

Fiji police

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Fiji lifts movement restrictions in wake of TC Harold destruction

April 9, 2020

Leonora Tumala shares her frustration after their homes in Daet were crushed by a tree in the typhoon

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80 Camarines Norte barangays isolated after Typhoon Uwan hits Philippines

November 11, 2025

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm

Analysis

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors

Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent

Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson

Coronavirus

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay talks to the main party leaders in last night's debate

Analysis

NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all

Coronavirus

NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...

The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants

Coronavirus

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

BEARING WITNESS

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

Analysis

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide

Analysis

Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"

Analysis

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

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27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

APJS newsfile

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

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APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

APJS newsfile

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

APJS newsfile

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

APJS newsfile

Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)

APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

Mousa Taher on board Ksar Sabadad

Asia Report

87+ Gaza aid flotilla activists abducted by Israel now on hunger...

An Auckland Writers' Festival vigil with Marika (left) and Kathy

Asia Report

Palestine on patrol – how a flag-dress caused a writers’ stir...

Niue's Dalton Tagelagi

Democracy

Close vote sees Niue’s Dalton Tagelagi back in as prime minister

PNG's Parliament Haus in Port Moresby

Culture

New bid to tackle Papua New Guinea’s chronic lack of women...

EDITOR'S PICKS

$"And now the world acts shocked because foreign activists were finally subjected to a fraction of what Palestinians have endured for decades$

Analysis

Shameen Suleman: Outrage over the flotilla activists but where were they...

Analysis

Israel’s $700m Hasbara fiasco – how Ben-Gvir’s flotilla abuse video stirred...

New Zealand . . . steadily pushing Pacific regional defence co-operation on a number of fronts

Analysis

Pacific concerns about militarisation – and NZ’s role as part of...

Spanish MEP Irene Montero

Asia Report

Spanish MEP accuses EU of failure to act over Israeli ‘kidnapping,...

MOST COMMENTS

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

Global

Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

$"And now the world acts shocked because foreign activists were finally subjected to a fraction of what Palestinians have endured for decades$

Analysis

Shameen Suleman: Outrage over the flotilla activists but where were they...

Analysis

Israel’s $700m Hasbara fiasco – how Ben-Gvir’s flotilla abuse video stirred...

New Zealand . . . steadily pushing Pacific regional defence co-operation on a number of fronts

Analysis

Pacific concerns about militarisation – and NZ’s role as part of...

Spanish MEP Irene Montero

Asia Report

Spanish MEP accuses EU of failure to act over Israeli ‘kidnapping,...