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    Polar bears are 'rewriting their DNA' to survive warming Arctic, study suggests
    Climate ActionJanuary 7, 2026

    Polar bears are 'rewriting their DNA' to survive warming Arctic, study suggests

    Excerpt from abcnews.go.com A new study from the University of East Anglia suggests that polar bears are undergoing rapid genetic changes, and scientists believe it's due to the impacts of climate change. “It’s kind of the first time that we believe we’ve seen a mammal system such as the polar bear, where temperature has been the lead cause, and environmental stress at increased temperature, is impacting their DNA, their genome in real time,” Alice Godden, the lead author of the study, told ABC News.

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    Seychelles Tourism and Fisheries Race to Adapt to Climate Threats
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    Climate ActionMay 21, 2026

    Seychelles Tourism and Fisheries Race to Adapt to Climate Threats

    Excerpt and Photo credit from thetraveler.org Seychelles, a high-income Indian Ocean archipelago built on beach tourism and tuna fisheries, is accelerating climate-focused investments as warming seas, stronger storms and coastal erosion threaten the foundations of its growth model. Tourism and Fisheries at the Frontline of a Warming Ocean Tourism and fisheries remain the twin pillars of Seychelles’ economy, underpinning jobs, export earnings and public revenue. Publicly available economic data indicate that visitor spending and tuna processing together account for a large share of gross domestic product and foreign exchange, leaving the country highly exposed to climate shocks in the marine environment.

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    Looking ahead to COP31: ensuring Pacific and island voices are heard
    Climate ActionDecember 15, 2025

    Looking ahead to COP31: ensuring Pacific and island voices are heard

    Excerpt from islandsbusiness.com PACIFIC leaders and representatives of overseas countries and territories are rushing to ensure that their voices are not pushed to the margins again. Regional governments and organisations have emerged from COP30 in Belem, Brazil facing the reality that their voices remain largely unheard, their concerns unrecognized by larger, more powerful nations. The region has started to pivot from negotiation to delivery after COP30, fully aware of the loneliness they face on the frontline of rising seas and intensifying storms.

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    Massive hidden waves are rapidly melting Greenland’s glaciers
    Climate ActionDecember 8, 2025

    Massive hidden waves are rapidly melting Greenland’s glaciers

    Photo credit: Andreas Vieli, University of Zurich via sciencedaily.com Excerpt from sciencedaily.com Researchers in Greenland used a 10-kilometer fiber-optic cable to track how iceberg calving stirs up warm seawater. The resulting surface tsunamis and massive hidden underwater waves intensify melting at the glacier face. This powerful mixing effect accelerates ice loss far more than previously understood. The work highlights how fragile the Greenland ice system has become as temperatures rise.

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    Tides of justice: how SIDS are redefining the fight against climate change
    Climate ActionDecember 8, 2025

    Tides of justice: how SIDS are redefining the fight against climate change

    Excerpt from odi.org In October 2025, the devastating impact of Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm was felt across Jamaica and the wider Caribbean. This catastrophic event laid bare once more the vulnerability of island nations to escalating extremes of nature, and the chaos climate inaction can and will wreak across the globe if world leaders do note take more decisive action on climate change.

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    Gran Canaria becomes a European benchmark in coastal adaptation
    Climate ActionDecember 8, 2025

    Gran Canaria becomes a European benchmark in coastal adaptation

    Excerpt from rtvc.es The Gran Canaria Island Council and the European Executive Agency responsible for the implementation of the LIFE Programme (CINEA) led the First Conference on Coastal Adaptation to Climate Change in Island Regions, organized by the LIFE COSTAdapta project, in a meeting that brought together public administrations, European specialists, universities and citizens at the headquarters of the Gran Canaria Island Energy Council (CIEGC). The event highlighted the urgency of taking action against the climate impacts already affecting the coastline and confirmed that Gran Canaria is moving towards a leading European role in implementing nature-based solutions to protect the most vulnerable coastal areas.

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    Looking ahead to COP31: ensuring Pacific and island voices are heard
    Climate ActionDecember 8, 2025

    Looking ahead to COP31: ensuring Pacific and island voices are heard

    Excerpt from islandsbusiness.com PACIFIC leaders and representatives of overseas countries and territories are rushing to ensure that their voices are not pushed to the margins again. Regional governments and organisations have emerged from COP30 in Belem, Brazil facing the reality that their voices remain largely unheard, their concerns unrecognized by larger, more powerful nations. The region has started to pivot from negotiation to delivery after COP30, fully aware of the loneliness they face on the frontline of rising seas and intensifying storms. They have long argued that smaller nations face disproportionate impacts from climate change yet remain excluded from key climate finance and decision-making channels. An analysis by the Green Overseas Programme shows that without deliberate action, the progress made at COP30 will fall short of producing real change for those most exposed to the climate crisis. Ahab Downer, Director of the Green Overseas Programme, stressed the need for systemic change.

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    Fighting climate change with imaginative methods in East Timor
    Climate ActionNovember 24, 2025

    Fighting climate change with imaginative methods in East Timor

    Excerpt from FRANCE 24 English YouTube channel As countries gather in Brazil for the COP 30 climate change conference, FRANCE 24 travels to East Timor, where global warming is wreaking havoc on the fishing industry. The isolated island nation and its 1.4 million people face coastal erosion, rising sea levels and dwindling marine resources. In response, local people are using imaginative methods to tackle overfishing. Report by Juliette Chaignon, Guillaume Gosalbes and Justin McCurry.

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    Climate disasters will send many countries into a debt spiral – but there’s a way out
    Climate ActionNovember 24, 2025

    Climate disasters will send many countries into a debt spiral – but there’s a way out

    Excerpt from theinvadingsea.com After years of disciplined reform and painful sacrifice, Jamaica had done what few global debt specialists thought possible. Through tough and sometimes controversial spending cuts and fiscal discipline, it slashed its debt from a staggering 150% of GDP in 2013 to just 62% by 2024. By 2025, Jamaica was hitting its stride. One internationally recognized credit rating agency upgraded the country’s credit ratings from category BB- to BB (slightly less vulnerable in the near term to adverse economic conditions). This gives the country more leeway to borrow on the international market. Unemployment and crime rates were falling. Jamaica’s economy was on track for one of its best years in decades.

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