Pacific Waves

Disaster teams in Papua New Guinea are still struggling to reach parts of the country hit hard by Monday's 7-point-5 earthquake: the Tongan branch of aid agency Live and Learn is still busy helping people patch up their homes two weeks on from the battering dished out by Cyclone Gita: Oceania leaders of the Anglican church gathering in Fiji will be looking at better preparing their people for natural disasters at a fono this week in Suva attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury; Pacific people call for more influence on global issues that affect the region's rapidly changing climate; a mould problem in Australia's refugee detention centre on Nauru posed a serious health threat.

Disaster teams in Papua New Guinea are still struggling to reach parts of the country hit hard by Monday's 7-point-5 earthquake. It's understood dozens of people in the Highlands region around the quake's epicentre have died, and possibly many more, as a picture of widespread destruction begins to emerge.

The Tongan branch of aid agency Live and Learn is still busy helping people patch up their homes two weeks on from the battering dished out by Cyclone Gita.

Oceania leaders of the Anglican church gathering in Fiji will be looking at better preparing their people for natural disasters at a fono this week in Suva attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Pacific people call for more influence on global issues that affect the region's rapidly changing climate; a mould problem in Australia's refugee detention centre on Nauru posed a serious health threat, a scientist says; the extent of the damage from Monday's earthquake in Papua New Guinea remains far from clear; the deputy prime minister of Vanuatu pleads guilty to obstructing or interfering with a criminal process.

Pacific people at a New Zealand climate summit call for more influence on global issues that affect the region's rapidly changing climate.

A mould problem in Australia's refugee detention centre on Nauru posed a serious health threat, a scientist says.

The extent of the damage from Monday's 7.5 earthquake in Papua New Guinea's Highlands region remains far from clear; the Deputy Prime Minister of Vanuatu, Joe Natuman, has pleaded guilty to obstructing or interfering with the execution of a criminal process; climate scientists give stark warnings about changing weather patterns in the Pacific; American Samoa's congresswoman visits New Zealand; celebrity chef Robert Oliver goes to work for the UN in the Pacific.

The extent of the damage from Monday's 7.5 earthquake in Papua New Guinea's Highlands region remains far from clear.

The Deputy Prime Minister of Vanuatu, Joe Natuman, has pleaded guilty to obstructing or interfering with the execution of a criminal process.