Tag: Climate research
Slow solutions to fast-moving ecological crises won’t work – changing basic...
ANALYSIS: By Mike Joy, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington and Phoebe Barnard, University of Washington
As the world grapples with multiple ecological...
India launches ‘celebration of future’ climate research centre at USP
By Joeli Bili in Suva
A partnership forged between the Indian government and the University of the South Pacific (USP) will see the establishment of...
‘The most significant environmentalist in history’ is now king. Two Australian...
ANALYSIS: By Nicole Hasham, The Conversation
The natural world is close to the heart of Britain’s new King Charles III. For decades, he has campaigned...
Climate change: sea levels rising twice as fast as thought in...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News climate reporter
Explosive new data shows the sea level is rising twice as fast as previously thought in...
USP and Canterbury University partner for Pacific climate research
By Timoci Vula in Suva
The University of Canterbury and the University of the South Pacific are partnering in a unique research project that will...
Climate change research aims to give back Pacific’s ‘sustainable voice’
Pacific Media Watch
A University of Waikato researcher says some of the current colonial representations of climate change in the Pacific are obscuring Pacific voices...
Gallery: Climate change, disasters spark Indonesian-NZ research publication
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
AUT Indonesia Centre director Lester Finch and Auckland Indonesia Community representative Maman Baboe spoke strongly last night in support of Indonesian...
Strongest climate solutions ‘developed together’, says PaCE-SD chief
Blessen Tom's video interview with PaCE-SD director Professor Elisabeth Holland in Suva. Video: PMC
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The University of the South Pacific’s environmental centre...
More frontline research ‘by Pacific for Pacific’ plea at climate summit
Trailer for the controversial climate change documentary Anote’s Ark – former Kiribati President Anote Tong opened the first Pacific Climate Change Conference in Wellington...
A timely climate media strategy to empower citizens
BOOKS: By David Robie, editor of Pacific Journalism Review
At the time of reviewing this important and timely book, Hurricane Irma had just ripped a...
Tiny Timbulsloko fights back in face of Indonesia’s ‘ecological disaster’
Drone views of the village of Timbulsloko showing the scale of coastal erosion and sinking flatlands in an area that once used to be...
Pacific-wide study aims to understand how journalists cover climate change
By Kendall Hutt
Climate change is at the heart of a unique regional study into journalism culture in the Pacific.
The study, focusing on journalism’s role...
Climate change report confirms ‘worst fears’ for Pacific nations
The State of the Climate 2015 report released this week has reaffirmed that efforts by Pacific Island countries need to be accelerated to keep...
New research highlights potential cost of climate resilience for Pacific countries
According to the World Bank the Pacific Islands are extremely exposed to natural hazards and climate change impacts, facing threats including cyclones, floods, droughts...
Fiji assignment enlightens aspiring climate change journalists
By Denise Yeo
A two-week journalism stint in Fiji, dubbed “Bearing Witness”, has lent new perspectives on the effects of climate change on AUT journalism...
‘If young people act over climate change, our leaders will listen’
A Pacific Media Centre report on a "united Pacific voice" on climate change at the Pacific Development Forum in Suva last September that got...
Sea-level rise claims five whole islands in the Pacific
By Simon Albert, Alistair Grinham, Badin Gibbes, Javier Leon and John Church
Sea-level rise, erosion and coastal flooding are some of the greatest challenges facing...
Pacific nations need to ‘weave together’ – act now over climate,...
Pacific nations need to weave together and act now to avoid tragedy as the effects of climate change take their toll on the region,...
‘We’re going to lose islands … whole countries,’ says Pacific climate...
By Thomas Leaycraft of Scoop
New Zealand needs to acknowledge that Pacific Island nations face an “ecological holocaust” and “ecocide” thanks to climate change, says...
Act now to avoid tragedy, academic warns politicians on climate
Victoria University Vice-Chancellor Grant Guilford told delegates at the opening of a university-hosted Pacific Climate Change Conference today that politicians need to act now...