"Australia, Scarred By Bushfires, On High Alert For Dangerous Summer"
"Four years since bushfires destroyed wide swathes of southeastern Australia, killing 33, the country is once again on high alert, bracing for what weather experts say will be the hottest, driest...
View Article"Facing 'Horrific' Pacific Rise, Tuvalu Crafts Climate Survival Plan"
"Fearing "horrific" risks from a rising ocean that could swamp low-lying islands, the Pacific nation of Tuvalu aims to reinforce its coasts in a novel partnership with Australia aimed at helping the...
View Article"For New Zealand’s Maori Communities, Climate Change Is Already Hurting"
"TANGOIO, New Zealand — The wharenui, or meeting house, stood forlorn. Usually the hub of this remote Maori community, it had been stripped of its wooden carvings. The bare cinder block shell gave the...
View Article"Climate Change Put Tuvalu In The Spotlight"
"Australia and Pacific Island state Tuvalu on Friday signed a security and climate change treaty designed to counter China's growing influence in the Pacific and address the low-lying island nation's...
View ArticleAfter Decades of Decline, a Feathered Icon Breeds in New Zealand Capital
"The national bird, the kiwi, has hatched eggs in the wild in the Wellington area for the first time in living memory, thanks to a multiyear conservation effort."BiodiversityWildlifeAustralia &...
View Article"Humpbacks Rebound in 20th-Century Whaling Hotspot"
"In summer, South Georgia island’s Cumberland Bay now sees whale numbers that rival the early days of whaling."BiodiversityNatural ResourcesWater & OceansWildlifeAustralia &...
View ArticleMegabats: Adelaide Adjusts To New And Growing Colonies Of Flying Foxes
"With wingspans over a metre and an insatiable love for fruit and nectar, grey-headed flying foxes have settled in massive numbers across South Australia".BiodiversityWildlifeAustralia &...
View Article100s Coming To Tahiti For Olympic Surfing. Can It Protect Its Way Of Life?
"Peva Levy said he felt a powerful, natural energy known as “mana” when he surfed Teahupo’o’s waves on a piece of plywood for the first time, rushing down a crumbling white surf in front of an...
View ArticleCorals at Risk as Great Barrier Reef Faces Its Latest Bleaching Event
"Increasingly frequent marine heat waves are hammering away at the world’s coral reefs, scientists say."BiodiversityClimate ChangeFish & FisheriesNatural ResourcesWater &...
View Article"New Zealand's Maori King Calls For Whales To Be Given Personhood"
"The King of New Zealand's Indigenous Maori people made an impassioned call Thursday for whales to be granted the same legal rights as people in a bid to protect the hallowed yet vulnerable...
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