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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....
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...
Plutonium levels at nuclear test site in WA up to 4,500 times higher than rest of coast, study finds
The Guardian
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June 23, 2025
Samples of marine sediment taken from the location of three 1950s British government nuclear bomb tests off the coast of Western Australia have revealed plutonium levels up to 4,500 times higher than the rest of the coastline. Sixty six samples...
Threatened whale species found in areas earmarked for deep sea mining
Euronews
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By Euronews Green Published on 24/06/2025 - 18:14 GMT+2 Two areas being targeted for deep sea mining in the Pacific Ocean are home to dolphins and threatened whales, a new scientific survey reveals. Sperm whales, listed as vulnerable by the...
Greenpeace survey finds ‘beautiful’ and vulnerable whale species in areas marked for deep sea mining
Euronews
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By Euronews Green Published on 25/06/2025 - 12:22 GMT+2 Two areas being targeted for deep sea mining in the Pacific Ocean are home to dolphins and threatened whales, a new scientific survey reveals. Sperm whales, listed as vulnerable by the...
Reagan Test Site Supports NASA Mission
MilitarySpot - Alabama
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June 25, 2025
JUNE 25, 2025 – A U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command team played an important behind-the-scenes role in supporting NASA’s Sporadic-E Electro Dynamics sounding rocket mission. NASA launched a Sporadic-E Electro Dynamics, or SEED, sounding...
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...
Pacific governments can improve state owned enterprises
Matangi Tonga Online
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June 25, 2025
Pacific governments can improve the performance of their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and reduce fiscal risks by implementing clearer and more consistent government ownership and oversight arrangements, according to a policy brief published on...
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...
China’s South Pacific foothold and how to prevent it
The Interpreter
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June 24, 2025
It’s the mid-2030s, and China’s growing network of dual-use ports and airfields has reshaped the South Pacific’s security landscape. Ostensibly, civilian projects now dot the region – but behind the guise of commerce, they threaten vital sea...
FMC Announces Investigation Into Flags of Convenience and Unfavorable Conditions Created by Flagging Practices
National Law Review
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June 25, 2025
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (“FMC”) announced on May 21, 2025 that it is initiating a non-adjudicatory investigation into whether the: 1) vessel flagging laws, regulations, and/or practices of certain foreign governments, including the...
USP Samoa Campus Graduates More Female Than Male Students
Newsline Samoa
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May 30, 2025
A total of 181 students graduated from The University of the South Pacific’s (USP), Samoa Campus today, Friday 30 May 2025. Of the total graduates, 122 were females. The graduation session featured students from Samoa, Australia, Cook Islands,...
Where the Black Freedom Struggle Meets the Anti-Nuke Movement
Inkstick Media
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June 25, 2025
I usually spend holidays one of two ways. I either work the whole day tying up loose ends or do something totally unrelated to my job, which deals with topics I think we can all agree can be a bit grim at times — nuclear proliferation, curbing the...
Judge Brown highlights legal duty to address IUU
The Islandsun
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June 25, 2025
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU Judge Dr Kathy-Ann Brown of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) has highlighted legal duty as one tool for addressing Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing in the Pacific region. A press...
Palau joins Tuna Transparency Pledge
Island Times
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May 30, 2025
By: Bernadette Carreon Palau has joined the Tuna Transparency Pledge – a global initiative launched by The Nature Conservancy with the goal of achieving 100 percent on the water monitoring by 2027. According to the TNC’s announcement yesterday,...
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...
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...
Ocean’s survival hinges on finding the billions needed to sa...
Modern Ghana
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The ocean supports food, jobs and the climate systems that keep global weather in balance – but only 8 percent of it is protected, and money to safeguard the rest is critically lacking. This weekend, finance leaders and marine experts are meeting...
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...
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,...