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The report in the journal Nature Climate Change concludes many of more than 8,000 places labeled as marine protected areas will be overtaken by effects of climate change without major reductions in carbon-dioxide releases worldwide.Click on the link below to read the full article.

If successful, this will be the first inhabited island within Palau to be cleared of rats. Click on the link below to read the full article.

Designated large-scale marine protected areas (LSMPAs, 100,000 or more square kilometers) constitute over two-thirds of the approximately 6.6% of the ocean... Although LSMPAs have received support among scientists and conservation bodies for wilderness protection, regional ecological connect

Heads of State and governments as well as ministers and delegates participated in a High-Level Dialogue on climate change and biodiversity at the Pacific Community Headquarters in Nouméa, New Caledonia.Click on the link below to read the full article.

This is the 1st announcement and call for papers for the 3rd Conference of the Pacific Islands Universities Research Network (PIURN), to be held at the University of French Polynesia from Monday, October 8th to Wednesday, October 10th 2018. Click on the link below for more information.&

Pure Ocean is looking for projects in five major areas of the world: Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and polar regions.Click on the link below for further details. 

Welcome to this fifth edition of the SPREP Pacific Ecosystem-based Adapation to Climate Change (PEBACC) project newsletter, an initiative to disseminate information on Ecosystem- based Adaptation (EbA).

A team of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute scientists is currently researching coral reefs in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), the Pacific Oceanscape"s foundation site. The reefs here have bleached and died for almost a century but have always recovered.

Pacific journalists have formed a network to create a platform for stories about environmental issues in the region. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

May is a momentous moment for climate change in the Pacific with key milestone events happening in our region.Click on the link below to read the full article.