Climate Change
The Fiji Government has secured a $37.3 million grant to strengthen climate resilience in vulnerable coastal communities facing rising seas, erosion, saltwater intrusion and extreme weather.
Safeguarding Tuvalu's future against rising sea levels has come some way to fruition after New Zealand/Aotearoa pledged an additional $20 million towards developing flood resilience works on the small...
The Kimberley Land Council and Traditional Owner Water Working Group say they are "underwhelmed" by the WA government's draft plan for managing the Fitzroy River catchment and the Derby Peninsula, whi...
Funding for fighting climate change across the Pacific is not keeping up pace with the urgency of the crisis amid complex systems, slow approvals and further risks that block access to its vital finan...
Te Poutoko Ora a Kiwa (Centre for Pacific and Global Health) at Waipapa Taumata Rau (University of Auckland), has been designated a World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Noncommunicable D...
Torres Strait Islander public health academic Francis Nona has called on the medical profession to address the rising health inequity of Indigenous peoples due to climate change.
Hundreds of people have fled their homes as floodwaters swamped a major regional community after predictions of a natural disaster not seen in almost 20 years.
Australia is once again feeling the sting of global conflict at the petrol pump. A fast‑escalating war in the Middle East has pushed crude oil back above US$100, and in a country almost entirely...
The Pacific islands of Vanuatu are standing up to the US government over a United Nations global warming resolution, demanding the world's major polluters pay reparations for failing to stem climate c...
A new six-part documentary series placing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge and leadership at the centre of climate change conversations is available to watch nationwide this month.
Carbon markets rewarding the recovery of degraded environments risk penalising long-term Indigenous stewardship, according to a coalition of experts writing in Nature Climate Change journal.
Two emerging First Nations researchers have been recognised by the Australian Academy of Science for work delivering practical, community-led responses to some of Australia's most pressing environment...
More than 50 Indigenous land and sea management representatives from the Kimberley travelled to Darwin this week to attend the North Australia Savanna Fire Forum and National Indigenous Carbon Forum...
