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Panguna Mine

Damage continues to be caused by shutdown mine says Bougainville MP

A Cabinet Minister in the Papua New Guinea autonomous region of Bougainville says damage continue
fukushima wastewater nuclear

As Japan builds nuclear dumping facilities, Pacific groups say 'stop'

Pacific civil society groups are calling on Japan to halt its plans to dump radioactive nuclear w
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Cook Islands National Environment Service establishes partnership with University of Newcastle

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

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

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

Five years have passed since the 
deep sea

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

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

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

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