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Issues are being raised ahead of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference.

Thousands of Pacific Island workers were stranded in New Zealand and Australia when the pandemic began. Others were stuck at home.

Vaccines likely will be a main item on the agenda.

The effects and memory of U.S. nuclear testing endures in the Pacific. “It is a level up from urgent for us,” one Pacific leader says.

The U.S. territory has been closed since March last year, and opened up its Hawaiian Airlines link on Monday.

Pioneered by Barack Obama, the Pacific trade pact, formerly known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, was initially seen as a means to balance China’s increasing influence.

The Maori party of New Zealand has said they are “sick to death” of their ancestral names being “mangled, bastardized and ignored.”

The World Bank’s second Groundswell report estimates 216 million people could be displaced by 2050, across six regions, due to climate change.

Chinese and Russian ships have moved closer to America’s Pacific territories amid increasing tension in the region.

Albacore is most commonly found canned in the U.S., where it’s labeled as “white tuna,” but the population is declining.