On Saturday, August 6, more than 50 people from Melekeok, including students, parents, and community members, gathered together to pick up trash from Bkul a Chelechol, a beach on the northern end of the state before Ngiwal. Usually, coastal cleanups occur in this stretch of beach two to three times a year in collaboration with […]
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PEW said WCPFC’s meeting would ensure skipjack tuna’s healthy status
An environmental organization said that the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) said that the major fishery management organization has an opportunity to ensure the sustainability of skipjack tuna. “By adopting this method for skipjack, WCPFC member governments would make good on their 2014 agreement to develop harvest strategies for their key stocks. A […]
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Japan makes arrests on bribery suspicions in Tokyo Olympics
TOKYO (AP) — A former Tokyo Olympic organizing committee board member and three people from a clothing company that was a surprise sponsor of the 2020 Games were arrested on bribery suspicions Wednesday. Haruyuki Takahashi, 78, a former executive at advertising company Dentsu, is suspected of receiving bribes from the former head of Aoki Holdings […]
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Minister of HRCTD meets with the Japanese Tourism Business
On August 11, 2022, Minister Ngiraibelas Tmetuchl of the Ministry of Human Resources, Culture, Tourism and Development and Palau Visitors Authority team, Marketing & Programs Manager Chloe Ysikl Yano and Digital Marketing Representative II, Janine Tewid met with the Japanese Tourism Businesses in Palau to discuss the current state of the tourism industry and possible […]
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Amid haggling over deep-sea mining rules, chorus of skepticism grows louder
By Elizabeth Claire Alberts KINGSTON (MONGABAY) — It starts with tiny deep-sea fragments — shark’s teeth or slivers of shell Then, in a process thought to span millions of years, they get coated in layers of liquidised metal, eventually becoming solid, lumpy rocks that resemble burnt potatoes.These formations, known as polymetallic nodules, have caught the […]
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IT TAKES TIME
You can get better at feeling by learning where your feelings are coming from. It takes perseverance to keep going especially on a recovery journey. Billy Ocean puts it this way in a song: “When the road gets rough, the tough gets going,” It became one of the rules for the journey – To ride […]