US Issues Warning To Pacific Island Countries Over Chinese Security Assistance, Citing Potential To'Fuel Regional And International Tensions '
The United States has issued a warning to Pacific Island nations against seeking security assistance from China, following reports of Chinese police presence in Kiribati, a neighboring nation of Hawaii. What Happened: The U.S. State Department cautioned Pacific Island nations on Monday against…#pacificisland #kiribati #hawaii #usstatedepartment #eeriaritiera #pacific #astatedepartment #prc #worldwartwo #kantonisland (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Countries With No Military, and Who Defend Them
There are 195 countries in the world today and it may come as a surprise that not all of them have a military to defend their nations. Many of these military-free countries are surrounded by water, island nations often protected by the nations around them. Since natural bodies of water are a great…#cia #centralamerica #caribbean #oceania #netherlands #unitedkingdom #southpacific #vanuatu #kiribati #newzealand (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 20, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The Intergenerational Impact of Nuclear Testing in Polynesian States
Communities affected by nuclear testing, many originating from island nations in the South Pacific, share their experiences at the Nuclear Survivors Forum. Credit: ICAN / Haruka SakaguchiBy Naureen HossainUNITED NATIONS, Dec 5 2023 (IPS) The language used in the Treaty of the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is unambiguous on its focus of the grave humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons. The TPNW also recognizes the influence of the public conscience “in the furthering of the principles of humanity as evidenced by the call for total elimination of nuclear weapons”. This public conscience has been shaped by what w...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - December 5, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Naureen Hossain Tags: Asia-Pacific Civil Society Environment Global Headlines Health Human Rights Nuclear Energy - Nuclear Weapons TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

Biden Opens Diplomatic Ties With Cook Islands & Niue In Bid To Steer Pacific Away From China
Biden Opens Diplomatic Ties With Cook Islands & Niue In Bid To Steer Pacific Away From China In what's being called a jab at China, President Biden in a Monday statement recognized the Cook Islands and Niue as "sovereign and independent" states, and formally opened diplomatic relations with them.…#cookislands #pacificisland #beijing #washingtondc #pacificislands #micronesia #fiji #polynesia #kiribati #nauru (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

One Man ’ s Quest to Heal the Oceans —And Maybe Save the World
Enric Sala—marine ecologist, conservationist, and ocean advocate—is standing under a life-size replica of a Northern Atlantic Right Whale at the natural history museum in Washington, D.C., and the air outside is smudged with wildfire smoke drifting down from Canada. It’s not surprising that Sala wants to talk about the smoke, or about whales. Their poop, however, is an unexpected twist. According to Sala, whale excrement, or, more precisely, the lack of it, has a role to play in the choking miasma that has forced my interview with one of the world’s foremost ocean explorers indoors instead of out on...
Source: TIME: Science - August 24, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Aryn Baker Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate TIME 2030 Source Type: news

Chinese military-run hospital ship arrives in Kiribati
A Chinese military-run hospital ship has arrived in Kiribati for the first time, as China vies with the United States for influence in the Pacific region. The arrival of the 14,300 metric ton "Peace Ark" - the first time a Chinese navy vessel has visited Kiribati - marks a step up in Chinese soft…#kiribati #pacific #peaceark #kiribatimarks #pacificisland #taiwan #wechat #tonga #vanuatu #solomonislands (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

How Web3 can help small island nations fight climate change
The cruel reality for small island nations across the Asia-Oceania region is their position at the tip of the climate change spear. Our collective march toward convenience and wealth at the expense of the environment has sea levels on pace to rise two-thirds of a meter by 2100. To put that in…#asiaoceania #kiribati #maldives #indonesia #palau #marshallislands #web3 (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Solomon Islands leader visits Beijing, highlighting the U.S.-China rivalry in South Pacific
Leaders of the Solomon Islands and China promised Monday to expand relations that have fueled unease in Washington and Australia about Beijing’s influence in the South Pacific. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare met Chinese leader Xi Jinping and the country’s No. 2 leader, Premier Li Qiang. Sogavare…#solomonislands #beijing #southpacific #manassehsogavare #xijinping #liqiang #sogavare #taiwan #communistparty #kiribati (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The rising ocean will extinguish more than land. It will kill entire languages
As the climate crisis forces migration, so native tongues wither, too. But it ’s not too late to interveneRising sea levels already pose an existential threat to the populations of Tuvalu, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and other low-lying Pacific atolls. In these places, however, it is not just homes, crops and community cohesiveness that are at risk: it is Tuvaluan, Kiribati and Marshallese – the languages native to these islands.The impact of the climate crisis on languages may be new, but the relationship between language and climate is old. As humans populated the Earth, climate and geography were enormous factors...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 28, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Anastasia Riehl Tags: Climate crisis Language Kiribati Asia Pacific World news Tuvalu Marshall Islands Pacific islands Environment Science Coastlines Unesco United Nations Source Type: news

More Than Half of the World Will Be Obese By 2035, Report Says
Obesity has often been thought of as a problem of the developed world, with wealthy countries eating themselves into a state of ill-health with an abundance of ultraprocessed foods, and poorer ones more often suffering from food insecurity. But that’s no longer true. According to a March report from the World Obesity Atlas (WOA), more than half of the global population—51%, or over 4 billion people—will have obesity by 2035, and the condition will touch all regions and continents of the world. The total cost of treating illnesses related to obesity will be an estimated $4 trillion per year, which is about...
Source: TIME: Health - March 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized Diet & Nutrition healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

‘Deep Rising’ Review: Jason Momoa Narrates a Murky Doc on Deep-Sea Mining
You can get visual whiplash while watching Matthieu Rytz’s documentary about the geopolitical, economic, social and ecological ramifications of mining the planet’s ocean floors for metals. One minute, you think you’re watching an IMAX documentary about gorgeous creatures of the deep, with enough…#matthieurytzs #cops #deeprising #sundancefilmfestival #jasonmomoa #anotesark #kiribati #pacificocean #deepgreenmetals #metalscompany (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Do You Know? Two Journalists Earn ₹602 Crore As Their Stake
Do You Know? 2 Journalists Earn ₹602 Cr As Their Stake NDTV Founders Prannoy and Radhika Roy will earn over ₹602 crore from selling their combined 27.26% stake in the news broadcaster to Adani Enterprises, according to exchange filings. The billionaire Gautam Adani-led company acquired shares from…#omicron #kiribati #bakerislands #tonga #ndtv #adanienterprises #howland #newyear #ist #roys (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 31, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Alternatives for the Marshall Islands to cope with the anticipated sea level rise by climate change - Nakayama M, Fujikura R, Okuda R, Fujii M, Takashima R, Murakawa T, Sakai E, Iwama H.
There are four atoll states in the world: The Republic of Kiribati, the Maldives, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), and Tuvalu. These countries are comprised entirely of low-lying land approximately 2 m above sea level. The Intergovernmental Pane... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 18, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news

U.S.-China tensions, Kiribati's shock withdrawal overshadow Pacific leaders meeting
Tensions between China and the United States, and the withdrawal of the remote Pacific island nation of Kiribati, have overshadowed the Pacific Islands Forum as leaders arrived in Fiji on Monday... #shockwithdrawal #islandnation #kiribati #pacificislandsforum (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 11, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

China ’s Pacific tour sparks hopes, fears in tiny island nations
Countries such as Vanuatu and Kiribati expected to seek Wang Yi’s support for development and infrastructure. #wangyi #vanuatu #kiribati (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news