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Updates: A significant eruption occurred on the of 27th May 2010. Reports from local witnesses say that there was a loud explosion that evening. Geo-hazards Unit does not have any volcano monitoring station on site to validate…

Executive Summary Introduction Considering the concerns of climate change and its impacts on coastal fisheries resources, SPC is implementing the ‘Monitoring the Vulnerability and Adaptation of Coastal Fisheries to Climate Change’ project with funding assistance from the Australian…

Executive Summary Introduction Considering the concerns of climate change and its impacts on coastal fisheries resources, SPC is implementing the ‘Monitoring the Vulnerability and Adaptation of Coastal Fisheries to Climate Change’ project with funding assistance from the Government’s…

Executive Summary Introduction Considering the concerns of climate change and its impacts on coastal fisheries resources, SPC is implementing the ‘Monitoring the Vulnerability and Adaptation of Coastal Fisheries to Climate Change’ project with funding assistance from the…

Executive Summary Introduction Considering the concerns of climate change and its impacts on coastal fisheries resources, SPC is implementing the ‘Monitoring the Vulnerability and Adaptation of Coastal Fisheries to Climate Change’ project with funding assistance from the Australian…

UNHCR warns of serious shortcomings at Nauru processing centre UNHCR released this morning in Canberra a report from a monitoring mission to the Nauru regional asylum processing center in the South Pacific. Nauru is the site of…

1. Country Profile Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa, is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. The country is made up of…

(extract) Summary of the Aerial Assessment Team’s Finding Scope and Scale of the Impact: The evidences and signs of impacts were localised to only two wards (Duidui and Wanderer Bay), specifically between Korangu and Viso. Summary of Impacts: Evidences of…

1. Country Profile The Kingdom of Tonga is a Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific with approximately 718 sq km of land area scattered over 170 islands, of which 36 are inhabited, in an EEZ of about…

Country Profile The Republic of the Fiji Islands is a Pacific Island Country (PIC) with a population of close to a million people; and is located about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand. The…