SIDS lauds Fiji
Source: Fiji Times
Rita :: Marshall Islands | updated 2013-05-20 13:21:08 -0700 | green-news
I think it's really an example in the region of how countries can truly move away from relying on fossil fuels to using renewable energy," Mr Henderson said. "We hope to work more closely with Fiji and look into great...
ADB Provides $100,000 to Marshall Islands For Drought Relief
Source: Scoop
Rita :: Marshall Islands | updated 2013-05-19 21:15:37 -0700 | green-news
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing a $100,000 emergency grant to the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands to help fund drought relief efforts in the northern areas of the Marshall Islands. On 19 April 2013, the Government...
Red Cross Sends Emergency Water Team to Marshall Islands
Source: Scoop
Rita :: Marshall Islands | updated 2013-05-12 23:11:41 -0700 | green-news
The team of three aid workers and 348kg of equipment will reach RMI in the next 36 hours. Due to an extended drought water supplies on the Island and the atolls have gradually depleted. Remaining water stocks in some areas...
6,000 Marshall Islanders face acute water shortage
Source: Boston.com
Rita :: Marshall Islands | updated 2013-05-09 20:25:53 -0700 | green-news
Marshall Islands (AP) About 6,000 people who live on the remote northern atolls of the Marshall Islands are facing acute water shortages as a severe drought worsens. The Pacific island nation this week declared a state of disaster in the...
NASA to study atmospheric storms that disrupt satellites
Source: Zee News
Rita :: Marshall Islands | updated 2013-05-04 00:13:34 -0700 | technology-news
Earth's upper atmosphere, which can interfere with satellite communication and global positioning signals...The launch window for the mission from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands is from April 27 to May 10, 2013. The ionosphere is a crucial layer...
Smoke price to rise
Source: Fiji Times
Rita :: Marshall Islands | updated 2013-04-30 14:08:20 -0700 | health-news
Pacific Islands, where a high percentage of deaths are related to diseases caused by non communicable diseases (NCDs). The proposed increase in tax, which is supported by the World Health Organization, is aimed at discouraging smoking, and using the additional...
NASA to study atmospheric storms that disrupt satellites
Source: Zee News
Rita :: Marshall Islands | updated 2013-04-28 04:48:31 -0700 | technology-news
Earth's upper atmosphere, which can interfere with satellite communication and global positioning signals...The launch window for the mission from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands is from April 27 to May 10, 2013. The ionosphere is a crucial layer...
UCF comes back to seal third straight C-USA series win
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Rita :: Marshall Islands | updated 2013-04-27 18:52:04 -0700 | sports-news
The Knights have now won series against Rice , Marshall and Houston to stay in the hunt in the Conference USA race. Lively, who allowed four runs on three hits in six innings with six strikeouts and five walks, registered...
New lawsuit claims state wrongly put sanctions on Drakes Bay oyster farm
Source: The Mercury News
Rita :: Marshall Islands | updated 2013-04-10 13:09:04 -0700 | green-news
In February the commission unanimously approved cease-and-desist and restoration orders against the oyster company, operated by Kevin Lunny, citing several violations of the state's Coastal Act. In particular, the commission noted discharging of marine debris; operation of offshore aquaculture...
Man jailed for fake ‘Casual Encounters' ad
Source: NY Daily News
Rita :: Marshall Islands | updated 2013-03-30 13:44:28 -0700 | entertainment-news
Stories A 64-year-old Virginia woman fretfully peers through her window blinds. Yet another strange man comes sauntering up her driveway looking for sex. The unwelcome advances are the result of her ex-boyfriend's malicious revenge prank involving a series of deceitful...
The Mercedes saloon girl
Posted by: Hafsasikander
Malel :: Marshall Islands | updated 2013-03-25 23:31:47 -0700 | technology-news
Mercedes has finally found its particular output maze. The German brand, prisoner of aesthetic conservatism of his clients, was in a dead end: if much modernized its classic sedans (Classes C, E and S) lost its most loyal buyers, and...
US will receive $4.5bn settlement from BP over 2010 oil spill
Posted by: Mary Grace Keiner
Matolen :: Marshall Islands | updated 2012-11-17 22:31:42 -0800 | disasters-news
In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill or the Gulf of Mexico oil spill) was the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. BP said Thursday that...
Destroyed Islands
Posted by: xhall
Enewetak :: Marshall Islands | updated 2012-11-04 09:07:38 -0800 | disasters-news
50th anniversary of last atmospheric nuclear test “Tightrope” Fifty years ago today, “Tightrope” the last of 215 US atmospheric nuclear tests took place. This was the final blast in one of the worst chapters in nuclear history that began sixty...
US helps Marshall Islands build a shark sanctuary
Posted by: prabirghose
Rita :: Marshall Islands | updated 2012-07-27 18:17:24 -0700 | green-news
Assisted by expertise from the Pew Environment Group of the US, the Marshall Islands have built a massive shark sanctuary – it covers nearly 2 million square kilometers of the Pacific Ocean. The Pew usually identifies archipelago nations who can...
Coast Guard Cites Transocean’s Safety ‘Failure’ in Gulf Spill
Posted by: imranulhaq
Rita :: Marshall Islands | updated 2011-10-12 14:31:22 -0700 | business-news
The U.S. Coast Guard cited safety failures by Transocean Ltd. (RIG), the owner and operator of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, in an explosion last year that resulted in the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Poor maintenance of...
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