By Nick Cumming-Bruce and Megan Specia 9 November 2017GENEVA (The New York Times) – The authorities in Papua New Guinea have vowed to use force, if necessary, to remove hundreds of migrants and refugees protesting at a closed detention center on the remote Manus Island if the men have not left of their own accord […]
By Fredreka Schouten 9 November 2017 St. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands (USA TODAY) – I first glimpse the damage to my home island from afar: A line of beaches pounded clean of sand by hurricane-driven waves. Blue tarps covering scores of roofless homes as my small commuter plane heads for a landing at the airport […]
By Ray Sanchez 11 November 2017 (CNN) – Puerto Rico’s emergency management director resigned Friday as the island’s slowly recovers nearly two months after Hurricane Maria made landfall. In announcing the resignation of Abner Gómez, effective Saturday, Gov. Ricardo Rosselló praised the work of his emergency management chief following Hurricanes Irma and Maria, which both […]
Some islands may see large strips of territory disappear by the end of the century By Jean Chemnick, ClimateWire on 9 November 2017 (E&E News) – The world’s small islands have more to lose from runaway climate change than perhaps anywhere else on Earth. Pacific and Caribbean islands have been battered recently by historically destructive […]
By Reece Jones 7 November 2017(Undark) – After 300 years of continuous human settlement, Hurricane Irma destroyed everything on the island of Barbuda and forced the relocation of its more than 1,600 residents, demonstrating that climate-induced migration is no longer a future possibility, but a present-day reality. A week and a half later, Hurricane Maria […]
By Umair Irfan 10 November 2017 (Vox) – Millions of Puerto Ricans are again without power after a high-voltage transmission line that had been repaired by Whitefish Energy, a Montana contractor now facing an FBI investigation, failed Thursday.The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority reported that power generation across the island plummeted from 40 percent to […]
By Ben Doherty 10 November 2017 (The Guardian) – Papua New Guinean immigration officials and police have started destroying makeshift shelters built by about 600 refugees and asylum seekers who refuse to relocate from the now closed Manus Island detention centre.The initial efforts to dismantle the camp started on Friday, a day before a slated […]
By Kara Fox and Livia Borghese 7 November 2017 (CNN) – Italian authorities have launched an investigation into the cause of death of 26 teenage girls whose bodies were recovered in the Mediterranean Sea on Sunday. The girls, aged 14-18, are believed to have been migrants from Niger and Nigeria who had embarked on the […]
By Adrian Carrasquillo 6 November 2017 (BuzzFeed) – Celebrity chef José Andrés has helped cook and deliver 2.2 million meals in Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria flattened the island, at one point cranking out 150,000 meals a day. But while his effort has been loudly praised across the country, the Trump administration, which awarded him […]
10 November 2017 (Reuters) – Australia needs to stop rejecting refugees and change its migration laws to come into line with international standards, the UN Human Rights Committee said in a report released overnight. The committee, which comprises 18 independent experts and monitors countries’ compliance with a global human rights treaty, says Australia should come […]
