Plan to repopulate Scottish island of Ulva
| | LONDON, UK, 19 January 2020 (Observer) - At Scotland’s western edge, made jagged by ancient elements, a new model for living is taking shape. Ulva, a small island in the Inner Hebrides, off the west coast of Mull, is beginning to reverse decades of population decline. |
Cleanup begins after record Newfoundland snow storm
| | LONDON, UK, 19 January 2020 (Guardian) - Canada’s federal government will help Newfoundland on the Atlantic coast dig itself out in the wake of a massive winter blizzard that buried cars and left thousands without power. |
Tuvalu inundated by waves whipped up by Cyclone Tino
| | WELLINGTON, New Zealand, 18 January 2020 (RNZ) - Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes in Tuvalu, with strong winds and giant waves churned up by Cyclone Tino causing extensive damage across the country. |
Storms brewing: Pacific outlook for 2020
| | WELLINGTON, New Zealand, 17 January 2020 (RNZ) - As a new decade dawns much of the Pacific is grappling with major upheavals from climate and health crises to political disruption and self-determination struggles. |
Bangladesh says once-submerged island ready for Rohingya
| | DHAKA, Bangladesh, 17 January 2020 (AP) - A Bangladeshi island regularly submerged by monsoon rains is ready to house 100,000 Rohingya refugees, but no date has been announced to relocate people from the crowded and squalid camps where they've lived for years. |
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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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