Ferry firm pledges to improve island deliveries
| | LONDON, UK, 25 May 2026 (BBC) - The chief executive of Isles of Scilly Steamship Group has promised to improve freight services to island residents after complaints about deliveries being unreliable and going missing. |
Small island, big stakes: Cyprus votes amid regional uncertainty
| | BAKU, Azerbaijan, 23 May 2026 (NEWS.AZ) - Cyprus is holding elections to the House of Representatives, the country’s parliament. At first glance, this may appear to be a domestic political event in a relatively small island state. Yet under current geopolitical conditions, the Cypriot vote goes far beyond national politics. |
This US island is home to flora found nowhere else
| | LONDON, UK, 23 May 2026 (Guardian) - On the south-eastern corner of Santa Rosa Island lies a grove of a few thousand Torrey pine trees, some of them more than 250 years old. The only other place on earth where these gnarled pines exist is in San Diego county, but biologists classify the two groves as different subspecies. So when a rare wildfire broke out on Santa Rosa Island late last week, firefighters raced to keep it from spreading into the grove, where it threatened to consign the island’s Torrey pines to extinction. |
Greenlanders protest against Trump outside new US consulate
| | NUUK, Greenland, 22 May 2026 (BBC) - Hundreds of Greenlanders gathered outside a new American consulate in the capital Nuuk on Friday to protest against Donald Trump's ambition for greater influence over the island. The protest capped a week in which the US president's special envoy to Greenland, Jeff Landry, made his first trip to the territory, a semi-autonomous part of Denmark. |
Jersey and Guernsey included in UK-Gulf trade deal
| | LONDON, UK, 22 May 2026 (BBC) - Jersey and Guernsey have been included in a new trade deal between the UK and Middle Eastern nations. Both government's said they had been included in the Free Trade Agreement (FTA), with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), giving businesses "preferential access" to overseas markets and making it easier and cheaper to trade with the islands. Jersey's government said the GCC had become an "increasingly significant market" for its financial and related professional services sector while leaders in Guernsey said the deal would be a "valuable platform". |
How Pacific islands are uniquely vulnerable to the oil crisis
| | SUVA, Fiji, 22 May 2026 (Guardian) - The Pacific region is already at the forefront of the climate crisis thanks to rising sea lewvels and increasing natural disasters. But the fuel crisis caused by the US-Israel war on Iran is revealing another fossil-fuel based vulnerability. The reliance of countries and territories in the Pacific on imported oil is expected to hit economic growth and increase inflation. The shortages are already showing up in the price of cassava, the cost of the school run, and in businesses’ bottom lines. |
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CIS |
 | | Critical Island Studies 4th international conference 3-4 Oct, 2024, Manila, Philippines |
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CBD |
| | COP16 21 Oct-1 Nov, 2024, Cali, Colombia |
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UNFCCC |
| | COP29 11-22 November, 2024, Baku, Azerbaijan |
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| | DARKNESS II conference, 20-23 January 2025, Nuuk, Greenland |
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JICAS |
| | Islands And Island Studies conference 3-7 June, 2025, Jersey, Channel Islands |
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UNITED NATIONS |
| | UN Ocean Conference 9-13 June, 2025, Nice, France |
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UPEI |
| | 3rd international conference on SIS and SNIJs 16-20 June, 2025, Charlottetown, PEI |
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GSIS |
| | Global Sustainable Islands Summit 20-22 April, 2026, Gran Canaria, Spain |
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SICRI |
| | Island Studies International Conference 25-28 June, 2026, Tacloban City, Leyte Islands, Philippines |
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ISISA |
| | 20th Islands of the World Conference 7-11 July 2026, Shinan County, Jeollanam-do, South Korea |
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SPREP |
| | 11th Pacific Islands Conference for Nature Conservation and Protected Areas, 7–11 September 2026, Noumea, New Caledonia |
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ANATOMY OF ISLANDS |
| | 14th Anatomy of Islands symposium 15-17 Oct, 2026, Jelsa, Hvar Island, Croatia |
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IWRA |
| | 2nd Islands Water Congress 9-11 Dec, 2026, Montego Bay, Jamaica |
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