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Superbugs

UNEP releases report on Strengthening environmental action in response to antimicrobial resistance


7-Feb-2023

The UNEP report ‘Bracing for Superbugs: Strengthening environmental action in the One Health resp

Deep sea sponges and other creatures live on and among valuable manganese nodules like this one that could be mined from the seafloor.

Subsea Mining Plans Pit Renewable Energy Demand Against Ocean Life


7-Feb-2023

As companies race to expand renewable energy and the batteries to store it, finding sufficient am

Tian Lui, Fiji, Mangroves

‘Removal of mangroves causes flooding’


7-Feb-2023

Former high schoolteacher Lepani Kolinisau claims the removal of mangroves in Nasese in Fiji, for

Bhagwan, Tian Lui Investment, Fiji, Nasese

Bhagwan against proposed $600 million investment in Fiji


7-Feb-2023

Climate activist Reverend James Bhagwan has raised serious concern regarding a major proposed dev

sand mining

The problem with our dwindling sand reserves


6-Feb-2023

Sand extraction is driving erosion, flooding, salination of aquifers and collapse of coastal defe

Fiji Tianlun Square Planning and Design

Residents raise concerns over the way consultations are being organised regarding the proposed project along Queen Elizabeth Drive


2-Feb-2023

Some residents living in Suva are raising serious concerns over the way public consultations are

Building_with_Nature_in_Indonesia_Nathanial_Brown_UNEP

Mangrove restoration gives hope to Indonesia's sinking shores


2-Feb-2023

On World Wetlands Day

National Environment Policy

Cabinet approves the Cook Island National Environment Policy 2022-32


19-Jan-2023

The Cook Islands Cabinet approved the National En

ISA Opportunity

Applications now open for two training opportunities with the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer)


18-Jan-2023

Applications are now open for two (2) training opportunities for candidates from developing State