Tag: Drought
10 smart ways NZ can be strategic about addressing climate change...
ANALYSIS: By Kevin Trenberth, University of Auckland
The announcement of a partnership between the New Zealand government and the world’s biggest investment manager BlackRock in...
Pacific Climate Warriors rise for global day of ‘urgent action’
West Papua advocates talk about climate change and human rights. Video: Human Rights Watch
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Pacific Islanders across the Pacific and within Pacific...
€4.5m plan to build El Niño resilience in FSM, Marshall Islands...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The European Union and the Pacific Community have signed an agreement to build resilience to future El Niño-related droughts in the...
Deaths and food shortages have left PNG people feeling ‘forgotten’
Barbara Jackson, humanitarian director of CARE International, speaks about her experience of the drought in Papua New Guinea in a recent video.
Thousands of Papua...
Palau suffers worsening drought – emergency declared
By Bernadette H. Carreon in Koror
Palau President Tommy Remengesau Jr. has declared a state of emergency due to the worsening drought in the country...
Worst drought in two decades forces PNG to close many schools
Report by Pacific Media Centre
Thousands of children in Papua New Guinea are currently receiving little or no education because of a severe drought making...