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Cyclone Pam

February 2022

  • Cyclone Winston in the South Pacific Ocean

    As extreme weather ravages the Pacific, there is much to do and no time to waste

    Mark Howden and Ofa Ma’asi-Kaisamy
    Climate change is already pushing some human systems and ecosystems beyond their adaptation limits

November 2016

  • People queue to use the Pak Flat water tank in the Itokama region of Papua New Guinea.

    Water in development
    The flatpack water tank: 'a micro solution with a macro impact'

    Natural disasters can damage traditional water harvesting tanks. Could an easily transportable tank be the solution?

September 2015

  • An abandoned house that has been affected by sea water during high tides near the village of Tangintebu on Kiribati.

    Australia's inaction on climate change set to dominate Pacific Island talks

    Australia and New Zealand likely to face strong criticism at Pacific Islands Forum as leaders fear global warming will risk the survival of many tiny islands

August 2015

  • Matevulu blue hole on Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu, in July 2015.

    Your holiday can help: Vanuatu and Nepal appeal for tourists to return

    Two countries blessed by natural beauty but hard-hit by natural disasters are keen to change the narrative and lure back travellers

July 2015

  • A woman carrying her baby walks past fallen trees in Tanna March 18, 2015. International aid agencies ramped up appeals for cyclone-hit Vanuatu on Wednesday, warning that the powerful storm which affected more than two-thirds of the South Pacific island nation had wiped out crops and destroyed fishing fleets, raising the risk of hunger and disease. Residents of the southern island of Tanna said food and basic supplies were running low while relief workers were still battling to reach many islands pummelled by Cyclone Pam's gusts of more than 300 kph (185 mph) on Friday and Saturday. REUTERS/Edgar Su (VANUATU - Tags: ENVIRONMENT DISASTER)

    Vanuatu reconstruction moves ahead in the aftermath of cyclone Pam

    Archipelago continues to rebuild after natural disaster but predicted El Niño drought could hit food security

April 2015

  • Port Vila after Cyclone Pam

    Field posts
    Vanuatu field post: '12 hours after the storm started we were still trapped'

    Living with his young family in Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila, Mark le Roux felt the brunt of Cyclone Pam. During the clean-up he learnt from the locals’ resilience

22 March 2015

  • Children unload packages of humanitarian aid from a French army helicopter in the badly hit island of Tanna.

    Cyclone Pam: scale of destruction emerges as Vanuatu picks up the pieces – in pictures

  • A woman smiles after receiving aid on the island of Efate, Vanuatu, March 21, 2015. A week after Cyclone Pam tore through the South Pacific archipelago with winds of 270 kilometers (168 miles) per hour, people are focused on the task of rebuilding. (AP Photo/Nick Perry)

    Cyclone Pam: Julie Bishop visits Vanuatu to gauge disaster

20 March 2015

  • U.N. World Confenence on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Miyagi

    Vanuatu won't be the last poor country devastated by climate change inaction

    Mark Goldring
    Oxfam’s CEO argues that we need a new, ambitious framework to reduce the risk of climate-driven poverty getting dramatically worse

19 March 2015

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    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: Pattern recognition

    David Hambling on the how the current crop of violent storms owe their origins to the Madden-Julian oscillation
  • Vanuatu gap year teachers

    Gap-year teachers evacuated from Vanuatu island after cyclone Pam

    Five Australian and British volunteers airlifted from Pentecost by Australian military helicopters despite a wish to stay on Vanuatuan island to help locals
  • Andrew Brooks at Tanna airport in Vanuatu after sheltering from cyclone Pam with villagers.

    Cyclone Pam survivor's harrowing story: 'the noise, the destruction and the wind'

    Australian tourist tells of being on one of the Vanuatu islands hardest hit by cyclone Pam and watching as the buildings around him were blown apart

18 March 2015

  • Tree collapsed on shack, Port Vila, Vanuatu

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: Cyclone Pam batters Vanuatu, deadly floods swamp Angola

  • Damage on Tanna island, Vanuatu

    Grow your own food to survive, Vanuatu leader tells locals hit by cyclone Pam

17 March 2015

  • Samuel searches through the ruins of his family home with his father Phillip, in what remains of their family home in Vanuatu's capital Port Villa, Monday, March 16, 2015. (AAP Image/Dave Hunt) NO ARCHIVING

    Vanuatu disaster: the island hit by an earthquake, a volcano then cyclone Pam

    The island of Ambrym has managed to escape the worst effects of the category five storm but its people will soon need help
  • A boy called Samuel kicks a ball as his father Phillip searches through the ruins of their home which was destroyed by Cyclone Pam in Port Vila, the capital city of the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu March 16, 2015. Reports from the outer islands of Vanuatu on Monday painted a picture of utter destruction after the monster cyclone tore through the South Pacific island nation, flattening buildings and killing at least eight people. Disaster management officials and relief workers were struggling to establish contact with the islands that bore the brunt of Cyclone Pam's winds of more than 300 kph (185 mph), which destroyed homes, smashed boats and washed away roads and bridges as it struck late on Friday and into Saturday. REUTERS/Dave Hunt/Pool (VANUATU - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

    Cyclone Pam: extra team of 70 takes Australian rescue staff to 123 in Vanuatu

    One-week-old baby one of 24 recorded dead as aerial surveillance of southern islands shows widespread devastation
  • A young boy plays with a ball as his mother searches through the ruins of their family home on March 16, 2015 in Port Vila, Vanuatu. Cyclone Pam has hit South Pacific islands on Saturday with hurricane force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding and has caused severe damage to housing. Aid agencies say it could be one of the worst disasters ever to hit the region.

    Farming absorbs 22% of cost of disasters in developing countries

    Natural disasters are taking a heavy toll on poor farmers who do not have the insurance or resources to rebuild their lives, according to a UN report

16 March 2015

  • A storekeeper talks about the shortage of food after cyclone Pam at a grocery store operating without electricity in Port Vila, capital city of the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu

    Vanuatu disaster: follow the Guardian's reporter on the ground in the wake of cyclone Pam

    The Guardian’s Joshua Robertson is attempting to uncover the full scale of the disaster wrought by cyclone Pam. We will be adding his tweets in here as he travels around the country talking to Ni-Vanuatus about the crisis. There will be radio silence from him at times when he goes out of range of satellites
  • In this photo taken on March 16, 2015 a man looks through the ruins of his home in Vanuatu's capital Port Villa after Cyclone Pam ripped through the island nation. The UN said on March 17, 2015 that twenty-four people have been killed by Cyclone Pam, as the Pacific nation's president pleaded for help to rebuild the archipelago's "completely destroyed" infrastructure. AFP PHOTO / POOL / DAVE HUNTDAVE HUNT/AFP/Getty Images

    Cyclone Pam death toll rises as Vanuatu begins to assess damage

    Deaths include one-week-old baby and four non-residents who had been sheltering on boats, with little still known of conditions on outlying islands
  • In this image provided by UNICEF Pacific people scour through debris damaged and flung around in Port Vila, Vanuatu, Saturday, March 14, 2015, in the aftermath of Cyclone Pam. Winds from the extremely powerful cyclone that blew through the Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago are beginning to subside, revealing widespread destruction. (AP Photo/UNICEF Pacific, Humans of Vanuatu) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES

    Climate change aggravating cyclone damage, scientists say

    Rising sea levels making island nations such as Vanuatu more vulnerable to storms and amplifies the impact of tropical cyclones
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