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The UN's cultural body, UNESCO, says no oil from a disastrous spill in the Solomon Islands has reached a protected heritage site. Click on the link below to read the full article.
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The Solomon Islands government says it's contained the oil spill from a wrecked ship at the centre of an environmental disaster. Click on the link below to read the full article.
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The licences given to Bintan Mining Solomon Islands are under fire amid a cleanup of an estimated 100 tonnes of its oil spilled into a marine reserve. Click on the link below to read the full article.
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Israel is offering to send five experts to the Rennell Islands in Solomon Islands who are trained to respond to pollution at sea and shore. Click on the link below to read the full article.
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The caretaker Solomon Islands government hopes to shut down Kangava Bay to all activity apart from the clean up and salvage following the oil spill disaster. Click on the link below to read the full article.
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The Solomon Islands government has slammed the companies at the heart of the Rennell Island oil spill disaster. Click on the link below to read the full article.
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New Zealand's government is sending two salvage experts from Maritime New Zealand to help with the Australian-led salvage operation, and they're on their way to the country now. Click on the link below to read the full article.
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Environmentalists and villagers are concerned at the lack of urgency to clean up an oil spill in a World Heritage Area in Solomon Islands. Click on the link below to read the full article.
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Four Pacific coral reef World Heritage sites have been selected for a four-year, USD$9 million project that will build climate resilience leadership - Rock Islands Southern Lagoon (Palau), Lagoons of New Caledonia (France), Ningaloo Coast and the Great
Field Note - Silent killer: black reefs in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area
The Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) is in a naturally ironpoor region in the equatorial central Pacific. The main introduction of iron to this environment is from maritime debris, especially shipwrecks and anchor gear, and is linked to proliferation of turf algae and benthic bacterial communities, and the formation of degraded ‘black reefs’...