US needs to build Marshall Islands’ trust over Cold War nuclear dump – US agency
Washington DC, US Reuters The US energy secretary should build trust with the Republic of the Marshall Islands by developing a plan to communicate clearly over lingering threats from a radioactive waste dump left by US nuclear weapons testing that is now seen at risk of floods from climate change, a US agency said on […]
WHO says toxic syrup risk “ongoing”, more countries hit
London, UKReuters There is an ongoing global threat posed by toxic cough syrups, the World Health Organization told Reuters, saying it was now working with six more countries than previously revealed to track the potentially deadly children’s medicines. The UN agency has already named nine countries where tainted syrups may have been on sale, after […]
Activists urge US apology, fair compensation, for US Pacific nuclear testing
Washington DC, USReuters More than 100 arms-control, environmental and other activist groups have urged the Biden administration to formally apologise to the Marshall Islands for the impact of massive nuclear testing there in the 1940s and ’50s and to provide fair compensation. The activists, led by the by the Arms Control Association and including Greenpeace, […]
“Death sentence”: low-lying nations implore faster action on climate at UN
United NationsReuters Faced with what they see as an existential threat, leaders from low-lying and island nations implored rich countries at the United Nations General Assembly this week to act more forcefully against a warming planet. The failure by developed economies to effectively curb their greenhouse gas emissions contributes to rising sea levels and especially […]
CLIMATE CHANGE: “WE CAN’T CLOSE OUR EYES”, SAYS MARSHALL ISLES EX-PRESIDENT
NICOLE MILNE, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, speaks with Hilda Heine, the Pacific island’s first female leader, following her loss at the nation’s recent presidential election…
Nuclear waste, rising seas and Trump: Marshall Islands struggles to stay above water
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The Marshall Islands is literally struggling to stay above water but its President Hilda Heine told Reuters she had saved her breath rather than try to persuade US President Donald Trump to hear its climate change message. Heine met Trump at the White House last month, along with the presidents of Palau and […]