Climate change, debt and COVID-19
This study provides an analysis of the linkages between multi-hazard exposure, lack of resilience, resulting disaster risk with related loss and damage, sovereign debt risks, and the lack of investment
Papua New Guinea
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The cell snatchers
And now it is the turn for human cells to be patented on the sly by scientific vampires', as shows the bizarre case of a Hagahai tribal male
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Erupting with a vengeance
In late September, Vulcan and Tavurvur - 2 volcanoe near the port of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea, spewed out dense smoke and poisonous fumes, throwing the country into a panic, Suffocated
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Journey into the market-place
Papua New Guinea has come a long way from a society that began cultivating crops in 8000 BC and had no need for a market economy. It came in touch with the outside world just about 100 years ago. Today, it exports minerals and imports food. The people com
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Wisdom from an obscure archipelago
In Down To Earth's first Country Report, ANIL AGARWAL and SUNITA NARAIN look at Papua New Guinea, its short but volatile transition to the market economy, its unique land tenure system and the mining and forestry sectors.
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Lessons from the fringe of the world
WITHIN the international community, few people have cared to study the environmental behaviour of Papua New Guinea. Its traditions provide a very instructive experience: they show the world how to
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Making profits for the West
While western investors are lining their pockets with Papua New Guinea's rich natural resources, all the government is getting in return is a degraded environment.
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Phenological trends with latitude in the mangrove tree Avicennia Marina
<p>Leaf fall and reproductive phenology of Avicennia marina assessed during 1982-83 using litter fall collections from twenty-five sites in Australia, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand revealed major trends
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Pacific islands face poverty as food, energy prices rise
Soaring food and energy prices are likely to push five per cent of the population of the small island economies in the Pacific into poverty, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday. Oil producers East Timor and Papua New Guinea, which is also boosted by high mineral prices, are
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NEW GUINEA
Poisonous bird
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Face death now
Some languages are murdered