Tag: Flooding
Cyber attack on NZ sea level website blamed on anti-climate critics...
By John Lewis of the Otago Daily Times
Aotearoa New Zealand's new NZ SeaRise website, designed to show how the country's coastline will be affected...
After Australia’s floods, the distressing but necessary case for managed retreat
ANALYSIS: By Antonia Settle, The University of Melbourne
From Brisbane to Sydney, many thousands of Australians have been reliving a devastating experience they hoped --...
Fiji’s AG blames Tongan tsunami warning delay on ‘agency liaison’
By Luke Nacei in Suva
Fiji's Department of Mineral Resources needs time to liaise with a number of agencies before emergency warnings or alerts are...
Sea level rise study in Marshall Islands paints a grim picture
RNZ Pacific
A new study shows rising sea levels in the Marshall Islands will endanger 40 percent of buildings in the capital Majuro, with 96...
Narrow window to halt climate change catastrophe, says Pacific Forum...
RNZ Pacific
The world is on the brink of a climate catastrophe, with just a narrow window for action to reverse global processes predicted to...
Infrawatch blames Philippine dam operators for Cagayan, Isabela floods
By Lian Buan in Manila
The widespread flooding in Cagayan that gripped the Philippines this weekend is partly being blamed on the massive release of...
Death toll from Papuan floods, mudslides rises to 89
Homes and bridges destroyed in Papua province by landslides triggered by torrential rainfall - the death toll is now 89. Video: Euronews
Pacific Media Centre...
Typhoon Usman and nightmarish Christmas holiday times in Bicol
Flooding of ricefields and villager homes beside the causeway between Vinzons and Labo in Camarines Norte, Bicol region, during Typhoon Usman on 29 December...
Climate change, disasters feature in joint Indonesia-NZ media journal
By Rahul Bhattarai
A local Indonesian community leader has praised the co-publication of a climate change and disasters edition of Pacific Journalism Review launched at...
Danish rescue diver praises Thai ‘cool’ kids in Mission Impossible
A Danish diver involved in the mission to successfully save 12 boys and their football coach from flooded Tham Luang cave in Thailand has...
‘We’re stuck in the river – please come quickly’ cry before...
By Felix Chaudhary in Lautoka
"We're stuck in the river, please come quickly."
These were the last words spoken by a distraught daughter to her father-in-law...
‘Scary’ floodwaters engulf homes in western Fiji as 4 die over...
By Felix Chaudhary in Lautoka
"It was scary, we've never seen anything like it."
That's how a Natabua, Lautoka, man described the experience residents had as...
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...
Images: Fiji’s Daku village tackles the floodwaters problem
Daku village, less than an hour's drive from Suva in Tailevu, near Nausori, on the main Fiji island of Viti Levu, is a living...
President Widodo greeted by protests over Bali plan in San Francisco
By Lazuardhi Utama and Bobby Andalan in Bali
A group of people calling themselves the "Californians Against Reclamation in Benoa Bay-Bali" have held a demonstration...
