High-tech mapping over Tuvalu in the last week is expected to provide comprehensive data which will help it adapt to rising seas.
The geotech firm Fugro is using a small plane to map the coastal seafloor and the elevation of the land using sophisticated sensors.
The plane has been flying out of Funafuti and, like a harvester over a field of wheat, it slowly goes over the entire island in parallel lines collecting data and high resolution photos.
Posted on - 2019-05-30The 2019 Joint Ministerial Forum was held on Aitutaki and included Cook Island Prime Minister Henry Puna, his deputy Mark Brown and ministers Vaine Mokoroa and Robert Tapaitau.
The New Zealand delegation included deputy prime minister Winston Peters, cabinet minister Stuart Nash and foreign affairs undersecretary Fletcher Tabuteau.
Posted on - 2019-05-29One hundred canoes by Christmas.
That's the aim of one of the Pacific's most ambitious traditional boat building projects.
Posted on - 2019-05-29