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FT to hold photography auction in aid of Oxfam’s Samoan Tsunami Appeal

28/02/2010 18:50
LONDON- The photography auction will be held at The Financial Times, 1 Southwark Bridge. Tuesday 9th March, 7pm onwards. On September 29, 2009, an earthquake of 8.3 magnitude triggered a tsunami in Samoa, America Samoa and Tonga. The tsunami devastated villages along the southern cost of Samoa,...

US Ambassador in Samoa during tsunami evacuation

27/02/2010 13:22
By Tusitiana Filia The United States Ambassador to Samoa H.E David Hebner evacuated along with many of the locals in the early hours of Saturday morning after the Samoa tsunami alert was issued. Hebner who is currently on his first official visit to Samoa told Karn Ocamb of the...

Mongoose caught dead

15/02/2010 04:07
By Jasmine Netzler (Samoa Observer) Good news. A 67cm long mongoose sighted at Aleipata in September was caught after 10 traps were planted in areas where it had been seen by villagers. Taule’ale’ausumai La’avasa Malua, CEO of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, said the male Indian...

Cyclone Oli hits French Polynesia

05/02/2010 16:23
PAPEETE, France, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Cyclone Oli hit French Polynesia on Thursday, forcing hundreds of people living on the coast to be evacuated, hitting transport and driving tourists into temporary shelters. Authorities told residents to stay indoors as winds of up to 200 km (125 miles) an hour...

U.S missile mimick test fails from Marshall Islands

05/02/2010 16:19
By Jim Wolf   WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. attempt to shoot down a ballistic missile mimicking an attack from Iran failed after a malfunction in a radar built by Raytheon Co, the Defence Department said.   The botched $150 million (94 million pound) test over the Pacific Ocean coincided...

Pacific Islanders Bid to Stop Czech Coal Plant

20/01/2010 16:57
PRAGUE (Reuters) - A small pacific island state's challenge to a Czech coal-fired power plant extension some 6,000 km away on grounds it could harm its environment could open a new front in the fight over global climate change. Micronesia has filed a plea with the Czech environment ministry using...

Coral reefs 'cradles' for new species

20/01/2010 16:56
CBC News A five-vatu coin, about the size of a Canadian quarter, provides scale to this picture of part of a 30,000-year-old fossil coral reef found on the South Pacific island of Vanuatu. (Wolfgang Kiessling) Coral reefs are recognized as important habitat for preserving the diversity of ocean...

'Islands’ high hopes sunk by climate accord

25/12/2009 23:02
  var doc_id = 533386; EUROPE - Fearing catastrophe, the low-lying states most at risk of global warming began Copenhagen’s talks aspiring for leadership and action. They ended sidelined, split and bitterly disappointed.   The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (December...

Obama fails to deliver at COP15

18/12/2009 14:25
By Cherelle Jackson COPENHAGEN - US President Barrack Obama failed to deliver new targets or ambitious goals at the Conference of the Parties today. The President made no new announcements and stuck to the US reserved stance on climate change. "We have established a 17% cut in emmissions by the...

Increase disasters threaten livlihoods of Pacific Islanders

16/12/2009 11:57
By Cherelle Jackson COPENHAGEN - Over three quarters of deaths in 2009 were due to natural disasters, specifically extreme weather events. As the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen continues, alarming figures were released Belgian WHO collaborating Center for Research on...
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