Tunnel study advances for Westman Islands connection
| | REYKJAVIK, Iceland, 6 May 2026 (IR) - Preliminary investigations into a proposed tunnel between mainland Iceland and the Westman Islands are progressing, with core drilling expected to conclude by the end of the year. |
How India uses remote island to show strength against China
| | NEW DELHI, India, 6 May 2026 (DW) - India is transforming Great Nicobar Island, its southernmost territory in the Bay of Bengal, into a major strategic asset. Located at the tip of the Andaman and Nicobar chain, closer to Indonesia's Sumatra than to the Indian mainland, the island sits near the Strait of Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping corridors. New Delhi is investing about $9 billion to build a transshipment port, airport, township and supporting infrastructure. However, the project also faces criticism over its environmental and social impact, including the felling of about 852,000 trees and risks to Indigenous communities. |
Hantavirus case triggers political friction in Spain
| | MADRID, Spain, 6 May 2026 (El Pais) - The arrival in the Canary Islands in the coming days of the ship where a Hantavirus outbreak occurred has quickly sparked a political battle in Spain. The premier of Spain’s Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, from the Canary Coalition, sparked tension Wednesday morning during a series of interviews with various media outlets. He stated that his government has not received detailed information on how the operation will be carried out and speculated that it might be a highly contagious variant. |
Canadian mining project suspended in Dominican Republic
| | SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, 5 May 2026 (AFP) - The president of the Dominican Republic on Monday suspended a mining project by Canadian company GoldQuest after hundreds protested the proposal over its feared environmental impact. The project sought to extract deposits of gold, copper and silver from a reserve of 1.1 million ounces, valued at around $5 billion, according to GoldQuest. |
Australia eyes security pact with Fiji
| | LONDON, UK, 5 May 2026 (Guardian) - Australia looks close to signing a landmark security and economic agreement with Fiji as part of the Albanese government’s efforts to contain China’s growing influence across the Pacific. But pushback from Beijing has undermined a separate pact with Vanuatu’s government, resulting in a scaling back of a deal aimed at locking in Australia as their primary security partner. |
Sampling Sardinia's legendary maggot cheese
| | WASHINGTON, US, 4 May 2026 (Nat.Geog) - In the soft glow of a wine-bottle lamp, the larvae were leaping. Squirming I was prepared for, having spent weeks researching and contemplating casu marzu, Sardinia’s famous maggot-infested cheese. The jumping came as a surprise. Our host, the chef at a restaurant in a Google Maps-defeating maze of medieval streets in Dorgali, a small city in the east of the island, had just produced a rough-hewn wheel of casu marzu. |
Man-made Islands: Excessive or essential?
| | DUBAI, UAE, 4 May 2026 (AD) - Type “man-made islands” into any search engine and the results feature: “Insane engineering,” and “largest artificial islands” along with aerials of palm-shaped coastlines. The undeniable spectacle and the sheer audacity of 21st-century real estate flattens a far longer history, one that precedes contemporary mega projects and speaks as much to survival as it does to ambition. |
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IWRA |
 | | 1st Islands Water Congress 4-6 Sept, 2024, Torshavn, Faroe Islands |
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ANATOMY OF ISLANDS |
| | 12th Anatomy of Islands symposium 26-28 Sept, 2024, Jelsa, Hvar Island, Croatia |
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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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