Pacific
# pacific - Monday 20 August, 2012
Amelia Earhart search expedition finds ‘debris field’ off Pacific island
High-res footage has revealed “a scattering of man-made objects” in location consistent with 1937 photo which sparked search.
# pacific - Tuesday 31 July, 2012
In photos: Philippines battered by Typhoon Saola
At least eight killed and tens of thousands displaced by Pacific storm.
# pacific - Monday 2 July, 2012
Amelia Earhart search project prepares to launch new expedition
New search will focus on area of underwater reef along the Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro.
# pacific - Wednesday 6 June, 2012
Denis O’Brien’s Digicel hits profits of more that $1bn
It’s the first time the telecoms group has reached profits of this level. It operates across the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific.
# pacific - Monday 23 April, 2012
Football washes up on Alaskan island a year after Japan’s tsunami
Football travelled over 5,000km after a tsunami struck the north-eastern coast of Japan in March 2011.
# pacific - Monday 26 March, 2012
‘Ghost ship’ from Japan tsunami spotted off Canada
The fishing vessel has spent the last year drifting all the way across the Pacific with nobody on board.
# pacific - Tuesday 20 March, 2012
Fresh search for Amelia Earhart and navigator 75 years after disappearance
Earhart and Fred Noonan went missing over the Pacific in 1937, but the remains of their aircraft have never been found.
# pacific - Sunday 11 March, 2012
WATCH: Tsunami debris spreading across the Pacific towards Hawaii
Homes, boats, cars, household appliances and other objects were washed into the ocean following the tsunami last year. This animated model shows how it is still moving across the Pacific.
# pacific - Friday 9 March, 2012
Pacific island nation considers moving over climate change fears
Kiribatis president says some villages have already been relocated because of rising the sea level.
# pacific - Wednesday 28 December, 2011
In pictures: the natural disasters of 2011
Last year saw a number of major natural disasters strike, including earthquakes in Japan, New Zealand and Turkey, volcanic eruptions in Chile and Iceland, and severe tropical storms in Asia.
# pacific - Monday 3 October, 2011
Seven bodies dumped at Mexico resort town bus stop
At least 20 people were killed over the weekend in Mexico, according to police reports.
# pacific - Saturday 3 September, 2011
Popular TV host among 21 killed as Chilean air force plane crashes
Chilean television personality Felipe Camiroaga was flying to the island to do a program on the reconstruction of Juan Fernandez island following an earthquake and tsunami last year.
# pacific - Tuesday 3 May, 2011
Sixty big name brands continuing to use sweatshop labour
A lobby group has examined 83 factories across Indonesia, Sri Lanka and The Philippines and found “widespread violations and abuses of workers’ rights”.
# pacific - Monday 14 March, 2011
O’Brien to sell Digicel firms to world’s richest man
Denis O’Brien’s Honduras and El Salvador telecommunications businesses are to be acquired by Mexican businessman Carlos Slim – recently named as the world’s richest man by Forbes.
# pacific - Friday 11 March, 2011
Take 5: Friday
5 stories, 5 minutes, 5 o’clock.
Eyewitness videos record shocking extent of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami
In video: how tourists and the residents of Japan experienced today’s earthquake.
Tsunami hits Indonesia without causing damage
Indonesia and Guam have both lifted their tsunami warnings, after waves of just 10 centimetres hit the eastern Indonesian coast.
Hawaii tsunami: Slow-moving waves creeping inland on islands
Tsunami warning centre explains that a tsunami is not always just one wall of water but a constantly-encroaching sheet of water that will swamp coastal regions.
Tsunami centre widens warning to western US coast
Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and Central and South America and the rest of the Pacific Ocean have been issued with tsunami alerts.
The 9 at 9: Friday
Nine things you need to know by 9am: A massive tsunami hits Japan in the wake of the 7th largest earthquake ever recorded; the Pacific region is on high alert and the verdict’s in on the iPad2.
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