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Marshall Islands

July 2024

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    Mapped: the vast network of security deals spanning the Pacific, and what it means

    Guardian analysis shows web of agreements between Pacific countries and Australia, US and China, as experts raise concerns over rising militarisation

April 2024

  • A Golden West explosive ordnance disposal technician carrying a Japanese projectile for destruction on Taroa Island in September 2023

    How hidden WW2 bombs across the Pacific are found and destroyed, decades after war

    Teams in the Marshall Islands, which is littered with unexploded weapons from the second world war, uncover and detonate potentially deadly devices

March 2024

  • Majuro, the largest atoll in the Marshall Islands and the nation's capital.

    The US funding deal is good for the Pacific. But the key is what happens next

    Meg Keen and Mihai Sora
    After months of delay, Congress approved Cofa funding for north Pacific nations but Washington needs to show it can deliver for the wider region

February 2024

  • President Hilda Heine, Marshall Islands, delivers a speech during the dedication of the De Brum Meeting Room (Tony De Brum, former climate Ambassador of the Marshall Islands and founder of the High Ambition Coalition) at COP23 in Bonn, Germany 13 November 2017.

    Congress ‘gradually destroying’ US relations with Pacific ally, Marshall Islands president warns

    Hilda Heine says US funding delays damage relationship with the Pacific nation as lawmakers say hold-up delivers a ‘gift’ to China
  • Funafuti, Tuvalu

    Culture, democracy and clout: why three Pacific countries are sticking with Taiwan

    Tuvalu, Palau and the Marshall Islands hold diplomatic ties with Taiwan despite pressure from China to switch sides
  • US president Joe Biden welcomes leaders from the Pacific to the White House. Leader from the Marshall Islands, Palau and Micronesia have said the US needs to pass new funding packages

    Pacific Island leaders warn US failure to pass funding bill opens door to China

    The Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands and Palau say Congress needs to approve fresh support announced by Joe Biden

August 2023

  • An aerial view of ‘the Tomb’, the concrete-covered crater on Runit Island that conceals more than 90,000 cubic metres of radioactive soil and nuclear waste

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Endless fallout: the Pacific idyll still facing nuclear blight 77 years on

    The film Oppenheimer has shone a global spotlight on the dawn of US nuclear weapons tests. In the Marshall Islands, where 23 of those earth-shattering blasts happened, people have never been able to forget

July 2023

  • A mushroom cloud forms after a test explosion off the coast of Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, in 1946.

    Marshall Islands calls for US to pay more compensation over nuclear tests

    Pacific nation plagued by environmental effects of 67 bomb tests between 1946 and 1958, including Castle Bravo detonation in 1954

June 2023

  • A man pulls metal chests with possessions along as he and his family wade through seawater

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    The rising ocean will extinguish more than land. It will kill entire languages

    Anastasia Riehl
  • Aerial view of Bikini atoll islands, part of the Marshall islands in the south pacific<br>AT96KY Aerial view of Bikini atoll islands, part of the Marshall islands in the south pacific

    Trump-era officials under fire as nuclear fund for Bikini islanders is squandered

March 2023

  • Tarlan Milne-Paul, who is named after an ancient coral head in the Marshall Islands, holds a fish

    Pacific project
    A favourite reef, a beloved atoll: Marshall Islands parents name children after vanishing landmarks

    Marshallese are looking for ways to stay connected to their home as climate change and poor economic prospects force them to leave

November 2022

  • Atoll nations have been described as strings of pearls floating in the ocean, but we are uniquely at risk from climate change.

    Before it is lost
    How do we mourn an island? Where do we mark its grave?

    Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner
    Atoll nations have been described as strings of pearls floating in the ocean, but we are uniquely at risk from climate change

September 2022

  • Hilda Heine

    The Pacific project
    Ex-president demands inquiry into Marshall Islands ‘mini-state plot’

    Hilda Heine calls for investigation into Chinese couple’s alleged efforts to bribe officials to help set up tax haven

August 2022

  • Marshall Islands received a donation of PPE from Taiwan earlier this month to assist with its Covid response.

    The Pacific project
    Marshall Islands, haven from Covid for two years, gets 3,000 cases in space of weeks

    Pacific country had recorded no community transmission of the virus until last week, and healthcare is struggling to cope

July 2022

  • Penny Wong and Solomon Islands PM Manasseh Sogavare chat as Samoa PM Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa looks on

    The Pacific project
    Power struggle with China and regional rift in focus as Anthony Albanese heads to Pacific Islands forum

    Absence of Kiribati from the meeting is ‘really devastating’ to the body’s long-term strategy, security expert says

May 2022

  • Children play on the beach in Mo’orea, in French Polynesia, where France carried out nearly 200 nuclear tests over three decades. The Pacific’s experience of nuclear testing has led to condemnation of Putin’s nuclear threats as ‘sheer madness’ by Pacific leaders.

    The Pacific project
    Pacific nations walk geopolitical tightrope over Ukraine war, as nuclear legacy looms

    Pacific leaders have broadly lambasted the Russian assault, but some countries have resisted outright condemnation of the superpower

November 2021

  • A boy rides through floodwaters near high tide in a low-lying area of Tuvalu

    The Pacific project
    Cop26: Pacific delegates condemn ‘monumental failure’ that leaves islands in peril

    Representatives particularly disappointed by softened language on coal and a lack of funding to pay for loss and damages

October 2021

  • The port in Funafuti, Tuvalu

    The Pacific project
    Third of Pacific islands unable to attend Cop26, sparking fears summit will be less ambitious

    Activists say the presence of the countries most affected by climate crisis is key to pressuring leaders to agree aggressive targets
  • A girl walks past the cemetery in Jenrok village, on the Majuro atoll

    The Pacific project
    Rising sea levels threaten Marshall Islands’ status as a nation, World Bank report warns

    Large parts of Pacific country’s capital would be permanently flooded and islands would disappear, according to new projections
  • Likiep atoll coastline on the Marshall Islands is under threat from rising sea levels due to global warming.

    Give us action on climate not just words, say developing nations ahead of Cop26

    Demand for G20 to ‘step up’ with tougher emissions reduction targets and financial aid for poorest
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