The Pacific islands struggling to survive

The article in Swedish: Stillahavsöarna som kämpar för att överleva A volcanic eruption in the north, recurring flooding and on top of that, a direct threat from Donald Trump. “How do you sleep at night?” I asked Vanuatu’s minister for climate change, Ralph

Sammanhang: ...“Am I really the right person to do this? It’s a huge honour, but nothing can prepare you for that moment,” says Cynthia Houniuhi about her testimony when we meet. The year before visiting The Hague, she travelled around the Solomon Islands to collect witness statements from local villages about the effects of the climate crisis. ...

Omnämnda platser: Bokaitoktok, Island, Netherlands. Omnämnda personer: Christiana Figueres, Donald Trump, Middle East.

”Scientists Portrayed as Mass Murderers”

For a Swedish version, read here. Outside an underground lecture hall at Tokyo University a crowd is bustling. Neuroscientists, psychologists, physicists, computer scientists and other experts have gathered here to discuss consciousness – the elusive inner

Sammanhang: ...In hindsight, he thinks it might have been better to initially release the results more quietly rather than presenting them on a theater stage. In his written responses, he says nothing about his post on X regarding nuclear weapons. I write to him, mentioning that Hakwan Lau believes the tweet equates the signatories of the open letter with mass murderers and that it intensified the conflict. ...

Omnämnda platser: Photo, Conducting, Venice. Omnämnda personer: John Lennon, with questions, Philip Goff.