Full Coverage: Oceania

15.11.2009 The oceans slow down global warming by absorbing carbon dioxide. But there is a heavy price to pay in their own ecosystem. Cosmos Magazine

27.10.2009 The world's biggest mining company, Billiton, is accused of human rights abuses and environmental destruction in a report launched today.
+ Where is the Church of England’s heart invested?

30.09.2009 Oxfam is expecting to send emergency staff to assess the situation following the 8.3 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that hit Samoa.

24.08.2009 Kwame Kwei-Armah’s four-part series retracing Queen Elizabeth’s 1954 royal trip, On Tour With The Queen, is odd but quietly engaging.

02.01.2009 It’s official: the growth of the biggest and most robust corals on the Great Barrier Reef has slowed by more than 14 per cent since the "tipping point" year of 1990, apparently as a result of rising sea surface temperatures and ocean acidification.

20.05.2008 This is Our Country Too is a hard-hitting investigation into Australia’s woeful treatment of its indigenous peoples, and a rare depiction of their unrelenting struggle for justice, equality and self-determination.

14.02.2008 The Pacific island nation of Kiribati has established the world's largest marine protected area - an ocean wilderness of pristine coral reefs and rich fish populations threatened by over-fishing and climate change.

25.01.2008 The first season is complete on a major effort to retrieve the most detailed record of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere over the last 100,000 years.
From: Science Daily

11.12.2007 The 10th anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol today – which requires industrialised countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by at least five per cent from the 1990 level – was marked by a warning that the treaty is under threat at the UN climate change negotiations in Bali, Indonesia.

07.12.2007 China was named Good Guy at the UN climate change negotiations in Bali on Friday, Malaysia was condemned to join Saudi Arabia, Japan and Canada in the Bad Guys group and Australia and India were told to make up their mind which category they wanted to be in.

29.11.2007 Australia's newly elected prime minister concentrated on policy rather than vision while campaigning. But in office he may yet usher in a new Australia, says Tim Soutphommasane.
From: Prospect

26.11.2007 Sharp deviations from Australia's political or economic trajectory are an unlikely consequence of the Labor Party's return to power, but the long overdue comeuppance of John Howard's government at the hands of voters was delightful to witness, says Mahir Ali.

15.11.2007 NEW YORK, Nov 14 (OneWorld) - A new study by an independent think tank names and shames the power companies responsible for high levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the United States and abroad.

25.10.2007 New Zealand has set landmark goals to become the world's first carbon neutral nation in electrical, stationary manufacturing, and transport energy by 2040. WorldChanging reporter Josie Howitt says the timetable can be met.
From: World Changing

25.10.2007 KPO Australia 2007 will bring together enterprise, government and outsourcing providers to promote the key benefits of Knowledge Process Outsourcing at Sydney, from 7 - 9 Nov 2007.

23.10.2007 This year’s ozone hole over Antarctica is smaller than recent years' due to mild winter temperatures, and is not a sign of ozone recovery, reports the UN. Scientists expect a bigger hole during spring.

21.10.2007 Inuit activists argue that the right to be cold is part of their basic human rights, which is being diminished by global warming caused by pollution emanating from other parts of the world.
This is just one of many questions that will be addressed at a series of climate change talks at the British Library.

24.09.2007 Rarely is St Kitts and Nevis (pop: 39,382), not to mention St Vincent and the Grenadines (pop: 125,882), at the centre of a titanic diplomatic struggle. But no nation is too tiny for China and Taiwan to squabble over. Lindsey Hilsum explains why.
From New Statesman

14.09.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Sep 13 (OneWorld) - Despite strong objections from the United States and some of its allies, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution Thursday calling for the recognition of the world's 370 million indigenous peoples' right to self-determination and control over their lands and resources.

05.09.2007 SYDNEY, Sep 5 (IPS) - As 21 world leaders representing 3 billion people prepare to meet at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit this weekend, civil society groups are calling for an instant end to poverty and the war in Iraq and immediate action on climate change.