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Fiji's Prime Minister Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama recently led a rally in support of this year's UN climate summit in Germany, at which Fiji will be presiding.
Environment
Fijians speak from the front lines of climate change
A simulation of the floating screens to be deployed by Ocean Cleanup to capture small plastic down to 1 cm, up to massive discarded fishing nets.
Technology
Two proposals to clean up our oceans of garbage: Will either work?
Plans for Hughes Glomar Explorer
Technology
Confirmed: The CIA’s most famous ship headed for the scrapyard
A sea surface temperature anomaly in the tropical Pacific Ocean during the peak of the 2009-10 El Niño.
Environment
El Niño is back, and global temperature records are in danger
The island formed after an eruption at the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano, a two hour boat ride from the island of Tonga.
Environment
What do you do when a new volcanic island arises from the great blue ocean? You climb it.
NOAA researchers Carrie McAtee and Kristine Meise board a rigid hull inflatable boat deployed from the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island.
Environment
For a team of researchers stranded on an island with a storm coming, the solution was simple. Send in the Navy
NOAA researchers Carrie McAtee and Kristine Meise board a rigid hull inflatable boat deployed from the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island.
Environment
For a team of researchers stranded on an island with a storm coming, the solution was simple. Send in the Navy
Nuku Island is in the southern part of Tonga.
Technology
Here’s how a tiny Pacific island got better Internet than the US
Pat Colin, a marine scientist at the Coral Reef Research Foundation, explores the waters off of the Pacific island nation of Palau for organisms to send to the National Cancer Institute in the U.S.
Environment
Scientists search Palau’s coral reefs for new anti-cancer drugs
SS Kroonland is seen on 2 February 1915 at the Culebra Cut while transiting the Panama Canal. Kroonland was the largest passenger ship to that time to transit the canal.
Business, Economics and Jobs
The Big Canal
Excavator at work, in Bas Obispo, Panama Canal (1886).
Business, Economics and Jobs
Panama: A historical perspective
fins&body
Environment
Shark finning proves tough to eradicate, even in ‘green’ Costa Rica
palau
Environment
In Palau, a glancing blow from Typhoon Haiyan prompts a glance toward climate change
Environment
Deep Sea Mining: Economic Bonanza or Environmental Boondoggle?