Emergency
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PNG expecting a visit from YWAM’s medical ship ‘Ruach’
Image: YWAM Ships Newcastle Papua New Guinea will be expecting a medical ship along its coasts soon after the vessel…
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Climate Change and Development Authority: Building community resilience in PNG
Building community resilience is now an important task in terms of the ever so common talks of ‘climate change’ effects.…
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Building Resilience to Climate Change in Papua New Guinea
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed today between the Climate Change & Development Authority, and the Autonomous Bougainville Government. The…
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PNG’s food crisis among unreported humanitarian disasters of 2016
The effects of the El Nino affected many communities causing droughts and frosts in what was stated as the worst…
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Powerful quake strikes off PNG, initial tsunami alert wound back
Image source: Follow Green Living By Harry Pearl SYDNEY (Reuters) – An 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck off Papua New Guinea…
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Chile declares state of emergency due to massive wildfires
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile declared a state of emergency on Friday as more than a dozen wildfires that have scorched…
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Ancient warm period hints at bigger-than-expected sea level rise
Sea levels have risen by about 20 cms (8 inches) in the past 100 years, with a thaw of ice…
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Earthquake of magnitude 6.7 strikes off Solomon Islands in South Pacific: USGS
Image: www.istockphoto.com SYDNEY (Reuters) – A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the South Pacific nation of the Solomon Islands at…
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More rain for PNG could mean more potential disasters waiting to strike
In the past few days, PNG has seen this ‘disaster triggering disaster’ effect in play with major flooding in many…
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Ice storm pelts central U.S., upper Midwest
Image: A car is buried in snow in a parking lot after a heavy winter storm in Incline Village, Nevada,…
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