Oceans running out of oxygen as temperatures rise
| | MADRID, Spain, 7 December 2019 (BBC) - Climate change and nutrient pollution are driving the oxygen from our oceans, and threatening many species of fish. That's the conclusion of the biggest study of its kind, undertaken by conservation group IUCN. |
Sumatra's dwindling forests face extra pressure from highway project
| | JAKARTA, Indonesia, 6 December 2019 (Mongabay) - In Sumatra, which has lost much of its forests over the decades, a major highway project running the length of the island is poised to speed up incursions into the few significant stands of forest that remain, researchers say. |
Chinese incursions near Japan-held islands top 1,000
| | KYODO, Japan, 6 December 2019 (JT) - The number of Chinese maritime incursions near Japanese-held islands in the East China Sea soared to a record this year, illustrating simmering tensions between Asia’s two biggest economies. |
Caribbean islands children displaced by storms
| | NEW YORK, US, 6 December 2019 (UNICEF) - The estimated number of children displaced by storms and flooding in the Caribbean islands saw a six-fold increase in the past five years, a new UNICEF report said today. |
Samoa arrests vaccination critic amid deadly measles crisis
| | LONDON, UK, 6 December 2019 (BBC) - Samoa has arrested an anti-vaccination campaigner as the country continues to battle a deadly measles outbreak. The outbreak - which has killed at least 63 people, mostly young children, since October - is in part blamed on people spreading false information, claiming vaccinations are dangerous. |
Menacing mice attack albatross on Gough Island
| | LONDON, UK, 6 December 2019 (BBC) - New video footage captured, by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), on Gough Island in the South Atlantic shows that mice are attacking adult albatrosses. This is the first time this behaviour has been documented with previous footage showing the mice attacking and devouring the chicks. |
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NAF & CRRF |
 | | Sustainable Communities conference 1-4 Oct, 2019, St. John's, Newfoundland |
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GREENING THE ISLANDS |
| | 6th international conference 15 Oct, 2019, Palermo, Sicily |
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| | Islands in the Belt and Road Initiative conference 9-10 Nov, 2019, Fuzhou, China |
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ADMU |
| | Critical Island Studies: The Islandic, Archipelagic, and Oceanic conference 27-29 Nov, 2019, Manila, Philippines |
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UNFCCC |
| | COP 25 2-13 Dec, 2019, Madrid, Spain |
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UB-NORTH |
| | Sustainable Grand Bahama Conference 5-6 March, 2020, Freeport, Grand Bahama |
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UHI INS |
| | 5th International St Magnus Conference 15-18 April, 2020, Lerwick, Shetland |
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SPREP |
| | 10th Pacific Nature Conservation Conference 20-24 April, 2020, Noumea, New Caledonia |
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FESTPAC |
| | 13th Festival of Pacific Arts & Culture 10-21 June, 2020, Honolulu, Hawaii |
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IUCN |
| | World Conservation Congress 11-19 June, 2020, Marseille, France |
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SICRI |
| | Island Feminisms Conference 13-15 June, 2020, Hilo, Hawaii |
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ISISA |
| | Islands of the World XVII conference 22-26 June, 2020, St. John's, Newfoundland |
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AEGEAN UNIV |
| | 'The island–insularity, archipelagos–a geophilosophical issue' A Summer University, 10-14 July, 2020, Rhodes, Greece |
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| | DARKNESS conference 30 Nov-3 Dec, 2020, Nuuk, Greenland |
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