Marshall Islands

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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

• We won't stand by while coal companies destroy our Marshall Islands homes

  17 Oct 2014: Milañ Loeak: Blockading the world’s largest coal port in Newcastle to show that whole nations are paying the price for Australia’s coal and gas wealth

• Island nations shouldn't be left to drown from climate change

  14 Oct 2014: Johannes Luetz: Rising sea levels will have dire consequences for island nations unless Australia and other countries take action

• Young Pacific islanders are not climate change victims – they're fighting

  22 Sep 2014: Nic Maclellan: A young performance artist from the Marshall Islands will tell this week’s UN climate summit that it’s time for action

• 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

• Why the next climate treaty is vital for my country to survive

  12 Jul 2014: The Marshall Islands minister Tony de Brum stresses the importance of forthcoming emissions targets, especially for countries less than two metres above the rising oceans
  

• Australia risks ‘going backwards’ on climate change and straining Pacific ties

  5 May 2014: Marshall Islands foreign minister says ‘it is as if our big brother doesn't understand us'
  

• Marshall Islands sues nine nuclear powers over failure to disarm

  24 Apr 2014:

  Pacific nation that was site of 67 nuclear tests between 1946 and 1958 accuses states of 'flagrant denial of human justice'

• Bikini Atoll nuclear test: 60 years later and islands still unliveable

  2 Mar 2014: Marshall Islanders unable or unwilling to return to traditional home, scene of huge US hydrogen bomb test in 1954

• Castaway José Salvador Alvarenga asks to be left alone

  13 Feb 2014: Salvadoran fisherman who returned home this week after more than a year adrift at sea says 'I want to be alone with my family'

• Homecoming for Pacific castaway José Salvador Alvarenga

  12 Feb 2014: El Salvador welcomes fisherman who apparently survived 13-month journey across Pacific from Mexico to Marshall Islands
  

• Castaway flies home after 13-month Pacific odyssey

  10 Feb 2014: José Salvador Alvarenga thanks people of Marshall Islands, where he washed up after fishing trip from Mexico went awry

• Castaway José Salvador Alvarenga may return home as early as Monday

  10 Feb 2014: Source says Alvarenga, who says he spent more than a year adrift in Pacific, will leave Marshall Islands on a flight for Hawaii

• Pacific castaway José Salvador Alvarenga 'is too weak to travel'

  9 Feb 2014:

  Man who says he spent more than a year drifting at sea will remain in Marshall Islands while he recovers, say officials

• Pacific castaway's return home delayed as he appears frailer than first thought

  6 Feb 2014: Extremely tired-looking José Salvador Alvarenga is expected to make a shorter trip home, and will have more medical checks

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