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Pacific Economic Update: Slowing Growth Highlights Need for More Inclusive Workforce
Odisha Diary
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June 17, 2025
HONIARA, June 17, 2025 — Economic growth is slowing across the Pacific as countries face weak global growth, natural hazards and climate related shocks. The World Bank’s flagship Pacific Economic Update, released today in Honiara, projects...
Slowing growth faces Pacific, need for more inclusive workforce highlighted
Solomon Star
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June 17, 2025
HONIARA — Economic growth is slowing across the Pacific as countries face weak global growth, natural hazards and climate related shocks. The World Bank’s flagship Pacific Economic Update, released on Tuesday in Honiara, projects regional growth...
Plutonium levels at Montebello Islands remain elevated 70 years after nuclear weapons tests
Scimex Newsfeed
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June 23, 2025
Funder: We acknowledge funding from the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency and Edith Cowan University, with analysis from the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation. We acknowledge the financial support from...
Scientists chart radiation at WA nuclear blast site 70 years on
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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June 22, 2025
Cam McGurk's stories of one of Australia's most heavily irradiated areas come drenched in warm Pilbara sunshine. "I actually spent my honeymoon at the Montebello Islands," Mr McGurk, a longtime member of the Ashburton Anglers fishing club, said....
The Strait of Hormuz: What It Is, Where It Is, and Why It Matters
Oil Price
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June 23, 2025
Of all the vast oceans and seas that cover our planet, no single waterway holds more influence over the global economy than a narrow, 21-mile-wide channel of water separating Iran from the Arabian Peninsula. Every day, a silent, steady procession...
‘I saw the flash’: How US nuclear tests changed life on this Pacific idyll forever
The Sydney Morning Herald
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June 20, 2025
McDiarmid and Haazen returned to Mejatto a year after the 1985 evacuation, and stayed for three months. When we land this time, there is a joyful reunion between the pair and several locals, including “aunties” now in their 40s and 50s who were...
World Time What Is the Strait of Hormuz and Why Is It So Important?
Yahoo News
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Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, in what would serve as another act of retaliation, after the U.S. launched strikes on three key Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend. While there was a brief reprieve in the tension after...
What Happens When a Country Sinks?
The Maritime Executive
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[By Sheridan Ward] What happens when a country ceases to exist? Where do its people go, who no longer have a citizenship to protect them? Statelessness usually follows conflict, or the dissolution or unification of a country, such as occurred with...
Tankers showing caution around Strait of Hormuz after U.S. attack on Iran nuclear sites
CNBC
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June 23, 2025
View looking north showing the Strait of Hormuz, connecting the Gulf of Oman with the Persian Gulf, with the Zagros Mountains and Qeshm Island of Iran in the background, and areas of Oman, Muscat and the United Arab Emirates in the foreground, as...
UN Ocean Conference makes progress on protecting marine waters
Mongabay
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June 19, 2025
The United Nations Ocean Conference, held June 9-13 in Nice, France, saw some progress on better protecting the hundreds of thousands of species that live in marine waters and the communities that depend on the sea for work or sustenance. New...
Pacific Islands Countries Push For Action at UN Ocean Conference
The Diplomat
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June 20, 2025
Last week, more than 60 world leaders convened in Nice, France, for the third – and the most-attended – United Nations Ocean Conference. There was cause for celebration: during the week-long conference, 19 countries ratified the Agreement on...
Tanker U-turns on the rise in Strait of Hormuz as analysts eye trade shifts
Riviera
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June 23, 2025
Shipping movements in the Middle East are reflecting the region’s escalating conflict, a fluid situation that saw the US drop a barrage of bombs on three of Iran’s nuclear facilites over the weekend and Iran vow retaliation. One clear sign of the...
Tankers showing caution around Strait of Hormuz after U.S. attack on Iran nuclear sites
NBC 10 Philadelphia - Pennsylvania
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June 23, 2025
Tankers reversed course away from the Strait of Hormuz as concerns rise on the possible closure of the vital choke point of trade. Reports by the UK Maritime Trade Operations on widespread electronic interference and GPS jamming and location...
Marape calls for reform and unity in Pacific Islands forum
NBC PNG
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PNG Prime Minister James Marape (second left) with his MSG counterparts during the summit in Fiji (Image: MSG Secretariat) Prime Minister James Marape has reaffirmed Papua New Guinea’s strong commitment to a more united, inclusive, and modernised...
Rarely seen endemic Mariana butterflyfish captured on video
Marianas Variety
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Mariana butterflyfish APRA, Guam — Last month, during Ocean Exploration Trust’s exploration of Ahyi Seamount (a shallow submarine volcano in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands), the Corps of Exploration aboard exploration vessel...
PM Marape calls for united, inclusive, and modernized Pacific Island Forum
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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June 23, 2025
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has reiterated Papua New Guinea’s strong commitment to a more united, inclusive, and modernized Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), one that truly reflects the identity, shared values, and aspirations of all...
San Antonio educator sets sail on deep sea expedition to inspire students in STEM
KENS - Texas
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June 9, 2025
San Antonio STEM educator Giselle De Leon will join a mission to map and study unexplored marine environments around the Marshall Islands. SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio STEM educator is embarking on a groundbreaking journey, sailing across the...
Lost at sea: How Tuvalu’s plight holds lessons for the future
The Interpreter
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June 22, 2025
What happens when a country ceases to exist? Where do its people go, who no longer have a citizenship to protect them? Statelessness usually follows conflict, or the dissolution or unification of a country, such as occurred with the Soviet Union,...
Dark finance: How Iran defies sanctions
CTech
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June 23, 2025
Since the United States withdrew from the nuclear agreement in 2018, Iran has developed extensive and sophisticated international networks of financial intermediaries - including shell companies, banks, and exchange offices - that have enabled it...
From deterrence to disarmament
Nepali Times
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June 22, 2025
22 June 2025Katsuhiro Asagiri in Santa Barbara Marking 80 years since the dawn of the nuclear age, peace advocates, diplomats, educators, and atomic bomb survivors from around the world gathered for the ‘Choose Hope’ Symposium recently in Santa...