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ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated 4 September 2013, 10:38 AEST Landowners on the island of Banaba in Kiribati say they are still fighting for compensation from Australia, New Zealand and Britain for the m…

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated 4 September 2013, 10:38 AEST

Landowners on the island of Banaba in Kiribati say they are…

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Added by Stacey King on September 4, 2013 at 7:59pm — No Comments

Banaban fights for fairness

Rnzi/Pacnews Wednesday, September 04, 2013

LANDOWNER Raobeia Ken Sigrah from Banaba island in Kiribati says his people will keep fighting for compensation for the depletion of the island's phosphate resources.

The Kiribati government is still considering various claims for compensation to former workers of the British Phosphate Company in Banaba. Banabans have sought compensation for decades and while some payments have been made, local…

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Added by Stacey King on September 4, 2013 at 7:41pm — No Comments

Australia must prepare for environmental migrants - academic

Updated 6 December 2012, 9:46 AEST

Australia must prepare for environmental migrants.…

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Added by Stacey King on December 7, 2012 at 9:26am — 1 Comment

Kiribati President starts final term as country's leader

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated January 17, 2012 17:26:54

Anote Tong was sworn in for a third term as President of Kiribati .

Over the past eight years President Tong has helped ensure his country's battle against rising sea levels and climate change, which has grabbed global attention.

Presenter Pacific Correspondent Campbell

Speaker President Anote Tong…

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Added by Stacey King on January 18, 2012 at 8:44am — No Comments

Kiribati prepares for elections and watches drinking water levels

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA PACIFIC BEAT Updated October 6, 2011 18:01:27

In two weeks time the island nation of Kiribati will start voting on its new parliament.

Over the past four weeks standing MP's and hopeful candidates have been working their way round their constituencies, trying to convince voters they are worthy of their support.

In recent years Kiribati has been at the frontline of campaigns…

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Added by Stacey King on October 7, 2011 at 9:17am — No Comments

Kiribati gets radical as atolls flood

Michael Field - Stuff.co.nz

Kiribati's 100,000 people are considering moving on to vast floating platforms as the rising Pacific Ocean begins consuming their atoll archipelago scattered along the Equator, their president Anote Tong says.

"If you are faced with the option of being submerged with your family, what would you do, jump on a rig like that, or not?" he asked reporters. "I think the answer is yes."

He said the plan, under active consideration, would cost $2…

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Added by Stacey King on September 12, 2011 at 10:51am — No Comments

New film tells personal stories of Pacific sea level rise

ABC RADIO Pacific Beat Updated June 2, 2011 08:43:33

While climate change is clearly a global issue, small Pacific Islands are sometimes seen as the canaries in the coalmine.

They are the most vulnerable to rising sea levels, and already strugging with salination and dangerous king tides.

An Australian filmmaker and an award winning photographer, Rodney Dekker, recently travelled to…

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Added by Stacey King on June 3, 2011 at 9:47am — No Comments

Kiribati officials plan for 'practical and rational' exodus from atolls

Written by: Laurie Goering Reuters AlertNet - 09 Dec 2009 18:18:00 GMT

COPENHAGEN (AlertNet) - Rather than waiting to become climate "refugees", people from the Pacific island of Kiribati are training as nurses and other professions to achieve "merit-based relocation" to Western countries in need of workers.

In one of the most emotional sessions so far of the Copenhagen climate… Continue

Added by Stacey King on December 10, 2009 at 10:11am — No Comments

In Kiribati, a way of life is being washed away

Melbourne Age

ADAM MORTON November 21, 2009

Villagers on the island of Abaiang stand in the sea where their homes used to be. Photo: Justin McManus

WHEN a coconut tree dies, the decay starts at the top. First the leaves fall, then the fruit. All that is left is a desiccated trunk, cut off at… Continue

Added by Stacey King on November 21, 2009 at 6:00pm — 2 Comments

IS NOW THE AGE OF STUPID? - Eco Premier from Kiribati to New York

Green.blorge -Technology for a greener future

THE AGE OF STUPID will be digitally broadcast in 700 theatres in over 50 countries on September 21and 22, 2009. Depending on where in the world you live, various events and celebrities are scheduled to appear for the festivities. The theaters will range from a “5,000-seater stadium on the Pacific island of Kiribati to a humble beach screening event with a… Continue

Added by Stacey King on September 18, 2009 at 10:49am — 1 Comment

Tales of climate change already effecting Tokelau, Kiribati (Another interview with Pelenise speaking)

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated Tue Jul 28, 2009 5:23pm AEST

A new report by a pair of NGOs says that Australia and New Zealand need to stop being part of the problem, and start being part of the solution for Pacific Islanders whose lives are already being impacted by climate change. The think-tank The Australian Institute, and aid agency Oxfam Australia, are pressing Australia to do more,… Continue

Added by Stacey King on July 29, 2009 at 1:17pm — 1 Comment

Kiribati and Tuvalu climate change strategy: total evacuation

Crikey - Monday, 27 July 2009 by Bernard Keane

Climate change is already having major effects on Pacific Island states, according to a new report from Oxfam, which looked at mitigation and adaptation strategies in the region and assistance from Australia and New Zealand.

The report makes clear that Pacific States, which have long been… Continue

Added by Stacey King on July 27, 2009 at 4:21pm — No Comments

Communities will re-locate soon because of rising sea-levels

Fiji Broadcasting Corporation LTD - Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Rising sea levels has forced many pacific communities to think about re-locating to higher grounds in-land or abandon their homelands altogether. Pacific youth advocate for climate change Ben Namakin from Kiribati raised the issue at the Pacific Youth Festival symposium on climate change and adaptation. While the rest of the world is still trying to… Continue

Added by Stacey King on July 15, 2009 at 3:51pm — No Comments

Japan PM Taro Aso: "The generation that saved the future"

ISRIA - 15 June 2009

"[We need] as leaders to offer life and hope to our people where there seems to be only despair and desperation."

These were the solemn words spoken to me at a summit meeting of the island countries of the Pacific, by the President of the Republic of Kiribati, a beautiful island nation in the South Pacific. For a certain house, the shore which until a few years ago was one kilometre distant now looms at… Continue

Added by Stacey King on June 15, 2009 at 3:56pm — No Comments

Indonesia's rent-an-island answer to climate change

AUSTRALIA NETWORK NEWS - Steve Holland

The South Pacific pounds the coastline of Funafuti atoll, Tuvalu. [AFP]3 June 2009

Indonesia is considering renting some of its islands to people fleeing Pacific territories as climate change raises sea levels. The Indonesian Maritime Minister's proposal comes as a report this week reinforces the need to accommodate… Continue

Added by Stacey King on June 3, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Huge iceberg set to break off Mertz Glacier

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA - Mon May 18, 2009 3:40pm AEST

A massive iceberg with enough freshwater in it to fill Sydney Harbour 135 times is about to break off the Mertz glacier in Antarctica. The iceberg will be 75 kilometres long and contains 750 thousand gigalitres of ice. Scientists are not sure if it's a natural event, or if global warming is to blame. But a joint Australian and French team hope to find… Continue

Added by Stacey King on May 19, 2009 at 8:22am — No Comments

Call to save 'dying oceans'

News Asia-Pacific -Al Jazeera.net

Indonesia's president has called for a concerted move to save the world's oceans from being destroyed by the effects of climate change, but made no mention of his own country's failings in nature conservation. In an address to the World Ocean Conference in the Indonesia city of Manado on Thursday, Susilo Bambang Yudhyono called for a global effort to "rescue… Continue

Added by Stacey King on May 15, 2009 at 4:27pm — No Comments

Disaster looming on rising sea levels: island nations

Space Daily - MANADO, Indonesia, May 12 (AFP) May 12, 2009

Rising sea levels that could wipe whole nations off the map and displace scores of millions of people are being overlooked in global climate change talks, island countries said Tuesday. Major emitters are pushing for greenhouse gas emissions cuts that are too low to prevent devastating sea rises, representatives said at the World Ocean Conference in Indonesia's Manado city.

"Dealing with environmental refugees will have… Continue

Added by Stacey King on May 13, 2009 at 2:51pm — No Comments

Space Probe to Measure How Sloshed Mother Earth Is

MILLER-McCUNE - Science and Environment

A European satellite scheduled to launch today will provide hard data on rising seas

By: Bruce Dorminey | March 15, 2009

What do the fates of the tiny Pacific island nations of Tuvalu, Tonga, Kiribati and the Russian launch of a gleaming new European gravity satellite have in common?

Gravity… Continue

Added by Stacey King on March 16, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Water plan helps sinking Kiribati stay afloat

The West Australian Online

2nd March 2009, 13:15 WST

A group of Australian scientists is helping to save a tiny central Pacific island nation from a dangerous byproduct of rising sea levels.

Kiribati is slowly being swamped by salt water, shrinking the land mass and threatening the islanders' precious supply of fresh water stored in underground reservoirs.

A team of experts… Continue

Added by Stacey King on March 2, 2009 at 3:18pm — 1 Comment