El Nino sets temperature record in key Pacific zone
| | PARIS, France, 12 October 2026 (AFP) - The Copernicus Climate Change Service said sea surface temperatures in a tell-tale El Nino monitoring region of the Pacific, known as Nino3.4, had reached an "all-time high" of 29.70C last month. |
Offshore wind emerges as an option to diversify energy for SIDS
| | MADRID, Spain, 12 October 2026 (RE) - Offshore wind could play an increasingly important role in strengthening energy security across SIDS, particularly where limited land availability constrains the expansion of renewable generation. A new report by the Global Offshore Wind Alliance (GOWA) and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), launched at Pre-COP31 in Fiji, examines the potential role of offshore wind across the group of 39 island and coastal developing countries in the Pacific, Caribbean, Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions. |
Bluegrass Wildlife: Living on an island
| | EDGEWOOD, US, 11 October 2026 (KCPSJ) - Stuck on West Sister island in Lake Erie, with only a cockroach-infested, dilapidated lighthouse for shelter, I wondered what the future held. Islands have inherently limited resources, and any potential lifelines depend on distance from the mainland. You cannot get around the limitations of an island. These characteristics are true whether we are talking about an island in the Great Lakes or a tropical paradise near the equator, and the consequences of not understanding them can be catastrophic. What I didn’t realize at the time, however, was how islands can scale up, creating even more important implications. |
DNA reveals surprising connection between Hawaii and Easter Island
| | NEW YORK, US, 10 October 2026 (AOL) - Hawai'i and Rapa Nui, the island also known as Easter Island, are two of the farthest-flung places Polynesian voyagers ever settled. Yet their people are each other’s closest genetic relatives among the remote island populations in a new study of Polynesian DNA. The same history left a second mark. Each new island was settled by a small group of people, and any genetic variants those few settlers happened to carry could become more common in the generations after them. Some of those variants are tied to disease. |
Resurrecting a reef oasis
| | BUNDABERG, Australia, 10 October 2026 (ABC) - For thousands of years the tiny island at the southernmost tip of the Great Barrier Reef was alive with cacophonous birdsong. But within a decade of guano miners arriving in force with their picks and shovels in the 1860s, Lady Elliot Island was silent, denuded of all foliage and bereft of the seabirds that once lived there. It remained a barren wasteland for more than 100 years before one family decided to revive it and started planting trees. |
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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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ARCTIC COUNCIL |
| | UArctic Congress 26-29 May 2026, Torshavn, Faroe Islands |
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SICRI |
| | Island Studies International Conference 25-28 June, 2026, Tacloban City, Leyte Islands, Philippines |
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WORLD ISLANDS FAIR |
| | The world’s first international event themed around islands 5 Sept-4 Nov, 2026, Yeosu, 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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SOCIETY OF ISLAND BIOLOGY |
| | 5th Island Biology conference 2-6 November, 2026, Atami City, Japan |
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IWRA |
| | 2nd Islands Water Congress 27-29 Jan, 2027, Montego Bay, Jamaica |
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ISISA |
| | 21st Islands of the Word Conference 6-10 June, 2027, Willemstad, Curacao |
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