The Pacific's first cyclone early warning system will go live in Fiji this week.
The early warning system was developed to give island nations more notice of the likely impact of cyclones, after 44 people died when the devastating Cyclone Winston tore through Fiji in 2016.
New Zealand-based hydrologist Bapon Fakhruddin designed the system.
Posted on - 2019-11-19Solomon Islands' incoming representative to the United Nations will take to New York many of the causes he fought for when he headed the Parties to the Nauru Agreement.
Transform Aqorau was chief executive of the PNA for many years and turned that body into a force that saw Pacific island nations start to earn substantial amounts of money from their tuna fishing resources.
Posted on - 2019-11-14A lot of the stuff we buy in the U.S. comes by ship, ships that use a particularly dirty kind of fuel. Now a big shipping company says it wants to go zero carbon. Climate reporter Becky Hersher tells us how some old tech might play a role and where that tech falls short.
Posted on - 2019-11-14