Recent News Headlines : North Pacific
75 YEARS AGO, WHAT IF JAPAN NEVER ATTACKED PEARL HARBOR?
AFP PHOTO US NAVY Few events in World War II were as defining as the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941... READ MORE›
U.S. IGNORED GLOBAL WARMING, SEA-LEVEL ISSUES AT SPACE JUNK TRACKING FACILITY PLANNED FOR PACIFIC ATOLL
The Marshall Islands base is among dozens of U.S. military sites threatened by climate change... READ MORE›
NATIONS FIGHTING POWERFUL REFRIGERANT THAT WARMS PLANET REACH LANDMARK DEAL
The talks in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, did not draw the same spotlight as the climate change accord forged in Paris last year... READ MORE›
100 COUNTRIES PUSH TO PHASE OUT POTENTIALLY DISASTROUS GREENHOUSE GAS
Global deal on HFCs - greenhouse gases far more powerful than carbon dioxide - seen as 'largest temperature reduction ever achieved by single agreement'... READ MORE›
AT RWANDA MEET, NATIONS REACH AGREEMENT ON REDUCING HFCS, ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS SAY
Environmental groups called this meeting the first real test of global will after the historic Paris Agreement to cut carbon emissions was reached last year... READ MORE›
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AN ICELANDIC LAWMAKER BREAST-FED HER BABY WHILE GIVING A PARLIAMENTARY SPEECH -- AND NO ONE CARED
The Icelandic lawmaker was sitting in parliament Wednesday, breast-feeding her 6-week-old daughter, when she was unexpectedly called to respond to a bill... READ MORE›
FINAL DRAFT OF LANDMARK CLIMATE PACT TO BE RELEASED
I'll be holding my breath until the gavel comes down," said Jennifer Morgan, an expert in international climate change negotiations with the World Resources Institute, a research organization... READ MORE›
WARMING OF OCEANS DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE IS UNSTOPPABLE, SAY US SCIENTISTS
Warming of oceans due to climate change is unstoppable, say US scientists... READ MORE›
PACIFIC ISLANDS MAKE LAST-DITCH PLEA TO WORLD BEFORE PARIS CLIMATE CHANGE TALKS
Children here in the Pacific talk about climate change like children elsewhere talk about school or TV... READ MORE›
CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE MARSHALL ISLANDS
Climate change and the Marshall Islands lives in the balance... READ MORE›
'FATHER OF CLIMATE CHANGE' SAYS THE PARIS DEAL IS 'JUST BULL***T'
A leading climate scientist has denounced the Paris climate change agreement as a fraud... READ MORE›
JAPAN'S NATIONALISTS ATTACK ANGELINA JOLIE WAR FILM
"Both the San Francisco Peace Treaty, which is predicated on acceptance of the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, and the honour of American veterans need to be defended."... READ MORE›
DUTCH PROTOTYPE CLEAN-UP BOOM BRINGS PACIFIC PLASTICS SOLUTION A STEP CLOSER
If all goes well, full-scale deployment of a 100km-long version will take place in the great Pacific garbage patch between California and Hawaii in 2020... READ MORE›
GLOBAL CORAL BLEACHING EVENT MIGHT BECOME NEW NORMAL, EXPERT WARNS
Eakin said although there wasn't a global coral bleaching event in 2013, every year featured bleaching somewhere in the world... READ MORE›
CLIMATE COALITION BREAKS COVER IN PARIS TO PUSH FOR BINDING AND AMBITIOUS DEAL
This is an ambition coalition, said Giza Gaspar Martins, chair of the group of the 48 most vulnerable countries to climate change... READ MORE›
'THIS IS NOT POLITICS, IT'S SURVIVAL'
Sydney Pacific island nations under threat from rising seas have warned that climate talks in Paris represent the last chance to save them from obliteration... READ MORE›
LIMA CLIMATE TALKS AGREE ON JUST ONE PARAGRAPH OF DEAL WITH 24 HOURS LEFT
Developing countries are pushing the industrialised countries to include commitments to help poor countries deal with climate change... READ MORE›
KIDS PLAY WITH 1980S MOBILE PHONES AND HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE
The Marshall Islands' suit asks that the nuclear powers begin negotiations on a disarmament treaty one year after the court's ruling... READ MORE›
PARIS CLIMATE CHANGE TALKS YIELD FIRST DRAFT AMID AIR OF OPTIMISM
That contrasts with the US position, which is for some parts to be legally binding, but not countries' pledges to limit the greenhouse gas emissions... READ MORE›
LABOR SAYS AUSTRALIA MUST 'TELL STORY OF PACIFIC TO WORLD' AT PARIS CLIMATE TALKS
The impacts of climate change are being felt acutely by Pacific nations, many of which are low-lying, remote, and with vulnerable infrastructure... READ MORE›
SURVIVORS RECOUNT HORRORS OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
SUNAO TSUBOI, 91, Hiroshima Mr. Tsuboi was a 20-year-old university student on his way to classes on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, when the atomic bomb fell... READ MORE›
CECIL THE LION KILLED: THE AFRICAN SAFARI HUNTING TRADE BY NUMBERS
Video Cecil the lion killed The African safari hunting trade by numbers... READ MORE›
DYING 8-YEAR-OLD'S WISH CAPTIVATES CHINA
NEWSER - An 8-year-old terminal cancer patient from Rhode Island has become a massive celebrity in China--in a little less than a week... READ MORE›
DRAFT OF CLIMATE PACT IS READY UN OFFICIALS SAY
The United States was putting its shoulder to the effort to complete an ambitious climate change deal... READ MORE›
US AND CHINA LEAD PUSH TO BRING PARIS CLIMATE DEAL INTO FORCE EARLY
A number of countries, including India and Japan, require their parliaments to approve the Paris agreement - a process which could take time... READ MORE›
SOME IN GUAM PUSH FOR INDEPENDENCE FROM U.S. AS MARINES PREPARE FOR BUILDUP
Some in Guam push for independence from U.S. as Marines prepare for buildup... READ MORE›
THE PACIFIC ISLANDS LOSING A WAY OF LIFE TO CLIMATE CHANGE A?? IN PICTURES
Coral reefs are vital barriers for the people of atolls... READ MORE›
WORLD'S LONGEST-SURVIVING CASTAWAY SUED FOR $1 MILLION AFTER BEING ACCUSED OF 'EATING HIS COLLEAGUE'
Mr Alvarenga washed up in the Marshall Islands, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, in January 2014... READ MORE›
BOYAN SLAT'S HIGH SCHOOL PROJECT RAISES MILLIONS TO CLEAN UP WORLD'S OCEANS
The oceanic currents moving around is not an obstacle, Slat said... READ MORE›
MARSHALL ISLANDS URGE AUSTRALIA TO FOLLOW ITS AMBITIOUS CLIMATE GOALS
It might be one of the worlda??s smallest countries but the Marshall Islands has set an ambitious target to cut its greenhouse gas emissions... READ MORE›
MEXICO VOLCANO POPOCATEPETL RELEASES EXHALATIONS OF ASH STRETCHING 2KM IN TO THE AIR
Video Mexico volcano Popocatepetl releases exhalations of ash stretching 2km in to the air... READ MORE›
HOW THE WORLD LEARNED ITS LESSON AND GOT A CLIMATE DEAL
Six years earlier, countries had bitterly walked away from global climate talks in Copenhagen without a deal... READ MORE›
KIDS PLAY WITH 1980S MOBILE PHONES AND HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE
The Marshall Islands' suit asks that the nuclear powers begin negotiations on a disarmament treaty one year after the court's ruling... READ MORE›
UN CLIMATE CHIEF WARNS THE WORLD IS 'PLAYING WITH FIRE'
Those include fresh funding to help developing nations adapt to climate change impacts and green their economies, which was not discussed this week in Paris... READ MORE›
U.N. CLIMATE TALKS DEADLOCKED OVER SCOPE OF PLEDGES
Their reluctance angered some delegates from countries on the front lines of climate change... READ MORE›
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TRUMP'S NORTH KOREA RED LINE COULD COME BACK TO HAUNT HIM
In three words of a tweet this week, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump vowed North Korea would never test an intercontinental ballistic missile... READ MORE›
HOW NORTH KOREAN SEAFOOD ENDS UP IN COUNTRIES THAT BAN IT
Reuters could not independently confirm that North Korean seafood from Yanji or nearby towns is being exported to South Korea, Japan and the United States... READ MORE›
U.S. CHALLENGES CHINA'S IMPORTS OF NORTH KOREAN COAL AMID U.N. SANCTIONS
China announced in April that it would ban North Korean coal imports to comply with U.N... READ MORE›
US DEFENSE CHIEF VOWS 'OVERWHELMING' RESPONSE ONCE DPRK LAUNCHES NUCLEAR WEAPON SUCCESSFULLY[1]
The United States and South Korea will enhance cooperation on both the maritime and cyber security, Carter added... READ MORE›
CLINTON RUNNING MATE BACKS PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE ON NORTH KOREA IN EVENT OF IMPENDING ATTACK ON U.S.
Democratic U.S. vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine said Tuesday that he would back pre-emptive strikes against North Korea if the isolated nation showed... READ MORE›
NORTH KOREA TEST-FIRES MISSILE TOWARD JAPAN
The missile, launched from near Sinpo, a submarine base, flew 310 miles toward Japan, the South Korean military said in a statement... READ MORE›
NORTH KOREA: U.S. CROSSED 'RED LINE', DECLARED WAR
North Koreaa??s top diplomat for U.S. affairs said Washington a??crossed the red linea?? and effectively declared war... READ MORE›
CHINA, RUSSIA RENEW CONCERNS OVER U.S.-SOUTH KOREA MISSILE DEFENSE
China and Russia say the United States should not deploy the THAAD missile defense system in South Korea... READ MORE›
NORTH KOREA FIRES SHORT-RANGE MISSILE INTO SEA
Seoul North Korea fires short-range missile into sea... READ MORE›
ASIAN ALLIES OF U.S. PERPLEXED AT TRUMP STATEMENTS ON SECURITY IN FAR EAST
The U.S. is the second-largest trading partner for both Japan and South Korea on a two-way basis... READ MORE›
NORTH KOREAN THREAT FOCUS OF MEETING BETWEEN U.S., JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA
The meeting follows recent announcements by North Korea that the U.S. and treaty allies Japan and South Korea see as provocative and threatening... READ MORE›
NORTH KOREA PROPAGANDA VIDEO DEPICTS NUCLEAR ATTACK ON WASHINGTON
Post to Facebook North Korea propaganda video depicts nuclear attack on Washington Pyongyang warns the U.S. against provocations against North Korea... READ MORE›