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Cook Islands National Environment Service establishes partnership with University of Newcastle


5-Sep-2022

Earlier last month, the Cook Islands National Environment Service formalised a new partnership wi

e-mentoring Samoa

SPREP Supports Samoa Through Environment Impact Assessment Mentoring And Capacity Building


31-Aug-2022

The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP) continues to promote the

Kiribati

Climate risk assessment of Kiribati finds significant ecological and financial risk


23-Aug-2022

New assessment says Kiribati vulnerable to coastal flooding and erosion and identifies investment

Minamata

Minamata Convention on Mercury turns five: born from science and growing with it


15-Aug-2022

Five years have passed since the 

deep sea

UN member states meet in New York to hammer out high seas treaty


15-Aug-2022

UN member states will gather in New York to hammer out a long-awaited treaty that, if agreed, wil

landowners

Sikuni Land owners oppose Barakoma airport reopening


11-Aug-2022

RESOURCE owners of the Sikuni Tribe in the Solomon Islands have opposed the reopening of Barakoma

Deep-sea mining robot Patania II is trialled in the Pacific Ocean, in April 2021

Deep-sea mining talks end with no agreement on environmental rules


10-Aug-2022

The negotiations on opening the world’s first deep-sea mines ended in Kingston, Jamaica, last wee

Gummy squirrel (“Psychropotes longicauda”) at 5100 m depth on abyssal sediments in the western CCZ. This animal is ~60 cm long (including tail), with red feeding palps (or “lips”) visibly extended from its anterior end (right).

Scientists discover dozens of new species in Pacific


10-Aug-2022

Thirty new marine species have been discovered by an English and Hawaiian scientific expedition i

ISA

ISA launches pioneering new report on the status of women scientists from LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS in deep-sea research


9-Aug-2022

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) launched a pioneering report, “Empowering Women from LDC