FACT SHEET: Obama Administration Announces New Policies to Promote...
In celebration of today’s opening of the World Conservation Congress, which the United States is hosting for the first time, President Obama last night addressed leaders from Pacific Island Conference...
View ArticleMalmstrom tests Minuteman III with launch from Vandenberg
An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test Sept. read more
View ArticleGender and climate finance: why it matters
Climate change impacts are affecting, in very similar ways, countries as far away from each other as Lesotho in Southern Africa, the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, Jamaica in the Caribbean and India...
View ArticleWCS, Waitt Foundation, blue moon fund, and Global Environment Facility...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 15, 2016) – The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), along with the Waitt Foundation, the blue moon fund (bmf), and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), announced a major...
View ArticleEU teams up with alliance of developed and developing countries in final push...
In a joint statement published today, Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Cañete and Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc call on international partners to join them in securing...
View ArticleParis Climate Agreement Clears Major Hurdle
NEW YORK, NY -- Early this morning, exactly two years after the People’s Climate March brought 400,000 people to the streets of New York City to demand meaningful climate action, 31 countries formally...
View ArticleFACT SHEET: Launching New Public-Private Partnership and Announcing Joint...
Even as the United States and the international community act to curb the carbon pollution that is driving climate change, citizens and communities need to prepare for the current and future impacts of...
View ArticleIndia Joins The Paris Climate Agreement
NEW YORK -- On what would have been Mahatma Gandhi’s 147th birthday, today India announced that it has formally joined the Paris Agreement. The South Asian nation is the world’s fourth largest emitter...
View ArticleSigned, Sealed, And Delivered: Paris Climate Agreement Reaches Major Milestone
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Earlier today, the European Union formally joined the Paris Climate Agreement, tipping the global agreement over the much-anticipated 55 percent emissions threshold needed for...
View ArticleMEMO: 39th Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organisation
The tri-annual Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), met between 27 September and 7 October 2016 at ICAO's headquarters in Montreal. read more
View ArticleFormer New Canaan Resident Sentenced to 33 Months in Federal Prison for...
Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHN B. JEFFREY, also known as TUCKER JEFFREY, 49, formerly of New Canaan, Conn., and currently a resident of...
View ArticlePacific links: Rosie Wheen on water equity, Hilda Heine, and a warning for...
Women across the Pacific are celebrating International Women’s Day. read more
View ArticleIndonesias Abuses in Papua Prompt Call for UN Probe
A coalition of Pacific island states is urging the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate human rights abuses in Indonesia’s easternmost provinces of Papua and West Papua (generally...
View ArticleTogo becomes first country in Africa to validate the elimination of lymphatic...
GSK, Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), and the MECTIZAN® Donation Program (MDP) congratulate President Faure Gnassingbé, the Government and the people of Togo for becoming the first country in Africa...
View ArticleYale community members awarded for outstanding contributions to sustainability
On April 21, in celebration of Earth Day, the Office of Sustainability held its annual State of Sustainability Awards Breakfast to honor Yale students, staff, and faculty who have advanced...
View ArticleF.E. Warren tests Minuteman III missile with launch from Vandenberg
An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test April 26, 2017, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The Minuteman system has been in service for 60...
View ArticleNew York ANG pararescuemen aid seamen on stricken ship in Mid-Atlantic
Members of New York Air National Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing prepare to take off from Westhampton Beach, N.Y., for a rescue mission at Lajes, Azores, April 24, 2017. The mission was to locate the...
View ArticleMalmstrom tests Minuteman III missile with launch from Vandenberg
An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test at 12:02 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time May 3, 2017, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. read more
View ArticleUH medical students take part in international TB eradication project
Members of Team A of the program on Bigej Island, an island north of Ebeye Island. read more
View ArticleNew cohort begins environmental biology summer internship for Pacific Islanders
m. A cohort of 12 Native Hawaiian and Pacific Island undergraduate students arrived at UH Mānoa this week to participate in a summer research internship called Environmental Biology for Pacific...
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