| 1993 | Dec 1, 1993 - News wire article from: PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association; June 8, 2004 ; 293 words ......of its kind in the Pacific Islands, ... Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); April 3, 2007 ; 158 words ......says the economic impact of climate change hasn't been ... www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-14915807.html?refid=gnews_209
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| 1996 | Dec 31, 1996 - ... ... reported in the medical journal Lancet that outbreaks of dengue fever in South Pacific islands are directly related to climate change in the region. ... The rains damaged Spanish olive, strawberry and winter grain crops, and forced more than 4000 people to evacuate their homes. ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/19161474.html?dids=19161474:19161474&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS: FT&type=current&date=Dec+31%2C+1996&author=By+Steve...
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| 2001 | Jun 28, 2001 - The roughly 70 US deaths attributed...evacuations, the wind- driven waves known as storm surges were the greatest killers, ... Pacific Islands' capacity to forecast storm surges and minimise potential tragedies associated...introduce new modelling systems to predict storm surges and ... www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-452807.html?refid=gnews_209
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| 2002 | Aug 19, 2002 - ... ... the adverse impacts of climate change, climate variability and sea level rise as the 33rd Pacific Islands Forum closed in Suva on Saturday. ... Tuvalu authorities have publicly conceded defeat and appealed to the governments of New Zealand and Australia to help in an evacuation of ... www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2002/2002-08-19-03.asp
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| 2004 | Feb 14, 2004 - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in a study in early 2001, reported that the sea level could rise by nearly one meter (3 feet) this ... PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association; December 6, 2005 ; 372 words ...06 DECEMBER 2005 MONTREAL (Pacnews) - Rising seas have ... www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-91128128.html?refid=gnews_209
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| 2005 | Dec 2, 2005 - Voluntary evacuation was tried in the 1980s, when hundreds of islanders left for Bougainville but were caught up in a secessionist revolution and returned. The Carterets will join many other Pacific islands that are on the point of being swallowed by the sea, including much of Kiribati ... www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2005/dec/02/guardianweekly.guardianweekly11
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| 2006 | Jan 5, 2006 - Labor will today release a policy urging the Government to develop a comprehensive Pacific climate change strategy. "It's the most significant problem the Pacific faces at the moment and the Australian Government is missing in action," said the Opposition's Pacific Islands affairs ... www.smh.com.au/news/national/sos-call-as-island-nations-go-under/2006/01/04/1136050496795.html
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| 2007 | May 3, 2007 - Some countries' economies already depend on remittances from islanders who have gone abroad to find jobs, and climate change could swell those numbers. Meanwhile, villages have already been evacuated from low-lying areas in Vanuatu and the Carteret Islands of Papua New Guinea. ... www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/world/asia/03iht-pacific.2.5548184.html
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| 2008 | Oct 5, 2008 - SPECIAL REPORT: THE first nation likely to be overwhelmed by climate change wants Australia to take its population in a mass evacuation if sea ... The Niue Declaration on Climate Change, recently agreed by Pacific Islands Forum Leaders, including Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, ... www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24440703-5006301,00.html
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| 2009 | Jul 30, 2009 - "It is not clear yet what contribution long-term climate change is making to sea levels, but we are getting there," hesaid. The islanders' visits are timed to place pressure on the Pacific Islands Forum to act more urgently and to press Australia and New Zealand to spend much more on ... www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25855505-16953,00.html
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