1720 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://reliefweb.int/report/world/state-climate-south-west-pacific-2023Climate change transforms Pacific Islands. A triple whammy of accelerating sea level rise, ocean warming and acidification is imperilling Pacific Islands, which face growing threats to their socioeconomic viability and indeed their very existence because of climate change.2024-08-27T02:25+0200reliefWeb-5bd28ea039d2f4f73b31cc15d8d20d6620240827022500https://foreignaffairs.co.nz/2024/08/27/mil-osi-united-nations-press-release-27-august-2024-climate-change-transforms-pacific-islands/The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) State of the Climate in the South-West Pacific 2023 report details how sea level rise in the region is above the global average. Sea surface temperatures have risen three times faster than the global average since 1980.2024-08-27T00:36+0200foreignaffairs-nz-4ac01818ac724ad59b0aebb7bc18077c20240827003600https://www.miragenews.com/pacific-islands-transformed-by-climate-change-1303182/A triple whammy of accelerating sea level rise, ocean warming and acidification is imperilling Pacific Islands, which face growing threats to their socioeconomic viability and indeed their very existence because of climate change. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) State of the Climate in....2024-08-27T00:10+0200miragenews-3ec705aec20bf66cc4ea98e727db11ca20240827001000https://opinion.inquirer.net/176345/department-of-water-a-magic-bulletDr. Mahar Lagmay of the University of the Philippines Resilience Institute has posted on Meta a new study on “Ground subsidence in major Philippine metropolitan cities from 2014 to 2020” by Jolly Joyce S. Sulapas et al. (including Lagmay himself) published by the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Vol.2024-08-26T22:40+0200inquirer-59f53a1850eacd9b33280b97e857054620240826224000