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• Pacific Islanders blockade Newcastle coal port to protest rising sea levels

  17 Oct 2014: Pacific Climate Warriors’ group aims to draw attention to climate change and protest Australia’s commitment to coal

• Bob Miller, the man who lived a dozen lives while doing good

  16 Sep 2014:

  Farewell to a remarkable Dagenham schoolfriend

• Man walks into crater of an active volcano – video

  Video (1min 04sec), 8 Sep 2014:

  Footage shot in August shows explorers Sam Cossman and George Kourounis getting as close as possible to a violently boiling lake of lava

• From Tuvalu to Kiribati, the outlook for Pacific island states is perilous

  28 Aug 2014: Haoliang Xu: The challenges may seem daunting, but to preserve the environment and provide decent livelihoods, island states need to take a greener, more inclusive approach

• Pacific Islands inch towards gender equality with female appointments

  16 Aug 2014: Three women take helm at regional body, heralding gradual progress towards closing gender gap in male-dominated region

• Yaws eradication will need millions of donated antibiotics, says WHO

  21 Feb 2014: World Health Organisation says bacterial skin disease requires drug companies to give large supplies of single-dose tablets

• The untold story of the Pacific Islands

  Guardian Professional, 20 Nov 2013:

  Climate change and sinking beneath the waves isn't the only danger the islands face. Unless poor policy is addressed, they also risk a homemade environmental and energy crisis

• Cocaine worth $370m seized from luxury yacht in Vanuatu

  23 Aug 2013:

  Officers had to chisel through rock and concrete to get to 750kg of drug destined for Australian streets

• Mood for self-determination grows among small Pacific nations

  23 Jul 2013: West Papuan efforts to put self-determination on the international stage gain momentum

• Fiji's military ruler uses Melanesian Spearhead Group to end pariah status

  26 Apr 2011:

  Co-operation among Pacific islands will be tested by Frank Bainimarama's leadership of the group

• Tsunami waves reach Hawaii following Japan earthquake

  11 Mar 2011: Pacific countries are on tsunami alert but waves in Hawaii and Taiwan have been less severe than was feared

• Lapita: Oceanic Ancestors – review

  28 Dec 2010: Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, stages the first exhibition on mainland France to focus on one of the oldest civilisations of Oceania

• For us in the Pacific, the Cancún climate summit is about survival

  2 Dec 2010: Marcus Stephen, president of the island of Nauru, says the predicament facing the Pacific's low-lying states is shared the world over

• Pacific politics revamped from an island perspective

  16 Nov 2010: Melanesian grouping of Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands reconsider their regional links

• Earthquake off Vanuatu in South Pacific triggers tsunami warning

  28 May 2010: Report says magnitude 7.4 quake has potential to generate tsunami striking Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia

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