Tag: Rongelap Atoll
The last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior – Rongelap podcast series
ABC Radio Australia and RNZ
You probably know about the last moments of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in 1985.
But what do you know about...
Victims and survivors of nuclear testing honoured in Marshall Islands
World Council of Churches
Today is Remembrance Day -- marking the 70th anniversary of the largest US nuclear test detonation, Castle Bravo, which took place...
Chinese ‘miracle water’ grifters infiltrated UN, bribed politicians to build Pacific...
By Aubrey Belford, Kevin G. Hall and Martin Young
A pair of Chinese scam artists wanted to turn a radiation-soaked Pacific atoll into a future...
Rainbow Warrior sails Pacific seeking evidence for World Court climate case
By Sera Sefeti in Suva
International environmental campaign group Greenpeace’s flagship Rainbow Warrior is currently sailing across the Pacific, calling at ports and collecting evidence...
Yan, Zhou plead guilty to conspiring to bribe Marshall Islands officials
By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent in Majuro
Three months after their extradition from Thailand to face bribery and money...
Marshall Islands calls off talks after no US response on nuclear...
By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent
On the eve of the US Pacific Islands Summit in Washington, a...
Davey Edward, Rainbow Warrior campaigner in Rongelap, dies at 68
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A former Rainbow Warrior campaigner and Greenpeace International technical manager, Davey Edward, has died in Perth, Australia. He was 68.
Edward had...
Remembering Nelson Anjain: A champion for nuclear justice in the Pacific
SPECIAL REPORT: By Talei Luscia Mangioni
“I realise now that your entire career is based on our illness. We are far more valuable to you...
From nuclear refugees to climate justice – the Rainbow Warrior legacy
SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie, who sailed on the original Rainbow Warrior to Rongelap atoll and is author of the book Eyes of Fire.
Thirty...
Pacific bombs, nuclear weapons and the Rongelap evacuation
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Thirty five years ago this week in another life Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie was an environmental journalist on...
Journalist tells of Rainbow Warrior bombing, Pacific fallout on ABC
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Pacific environmental and political journalist David Robie has recalled the bombing of the original Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior 33 years ago...
5 mind-boggling things about Pilger’s doco The Coming War on China
With dozens of US military bases encircling China with a "giant noose," and America's historic nuclear presence in the Pacific region, a war between...