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 Stories About: Pacific Islands
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Spammed If You Do, Spammed If You Don't
Breadfruit Trees Endangered by Climate Change and Western-Style Diet |
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27 Oct 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Spammed If You Do, Spammed If You Don't Breadfruit Trees Endangered by Climate Change and Western-Style Diet The breadfruit tree, which has long provided a dietary staple to residents of South Pacific islands, is in severe decline, experts say, threatened by climate change and, of all things, Spam. Breadfruit trees, with their shallow roots, are particularly vulnerable to storms and cyclones, which have been on ... |
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| Topics: climate, health, Pacific Islands, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Two Turntables and a Megapode
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20 Jun 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Two Turntables and a Megapode This week was for the birds -- in a good way: Two previously endangered species seem to be enjoying a rebound. The population of the once desperately rare Polynesian Megapode has doubled and the bird could soon be removed from the list of critically endangered species maintained by the World Conservation Union. The species is the Pacific's last megapode -- a large-footed bird that uses ... |
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| Topics: Pacific Islands, South America, wildlife (all these topics) |
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No Island Is an Island
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16 Aug 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| No Island Is an Island Climate change was the leading concern at the annual Pacific Island Forum this week, where leaders of small island nations chastised the United States for abandoning the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. The islands have an unusually vested interest in the protocol because they face a high risk of being swallowed up by seas swollen from melting ice caps a ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, Australia, climate, Pacific Islands, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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