Pacific Islands

PHOTOS: Swimming With A Bumper Crop Of Humpback Whale Calves

Tony Wu | Posted 01.09.2012

Tony Wu

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Terror Threat? Climate Change Shrinking Plants and Animals Part of Bigger Global Security Threat

Michael Shank | Posted 12.19.2011

Michael Shank

This week's announcement that climate change is shrinking plant and animal species and is likely to have a negative impact on human nutrition in the f...

Needed: A UN Special Representative on Climate Change and Security

Ambassador Marlene Moses | Posted 09.23.2011

Ambassador Marlene Moses

Climate change has transformed the world we live in. It is as big a threat to peace and security as nuclear proliferation or global terrorism. It brings hunger and disease, drought and deluge; in its wake will come the spread of deserts and a tide of refugees.

Branson Hears the Who? A Climate Change Poem With Thanks to Sir Richard Branson and the Great Dr. Seuss

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011

Lisa Kaas Boyle

In the heat of the day, with the very best crew, Sir Branson was flying quite far from the ground, when he heard a distinct, but a very small sound...

Minimum Wage, and Controversy, Reaches Distant U.S. Islands

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

Michelle Chen

The 2007 increase in the minimum wage was a modest boost for America's low-wage labor force, but it's making a far bigger splash in the Pacific Ocean, on two remote outposts of the American empire.

Pacific Pushback Has the U.S. Empire of Bases Reached Its High-Water Mark?

John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011

John Feffer

For a country with a pacifist constitution, Japan is bristling with weaponry. Indeed, that Asian land has long functioned as a huge aircraft carrier and naval base for U.S. military power.

Palau To Take Uighur Detainees

AP | RAY LILLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The tropical Pacific island nation of Palau announced Wednesday it will accept up to 17 Chinese Muslims who have langu...