Pacific Prepared Podcast

As Fiji battles flooding, the Labasa Chamber of Commerce president Satish Kumar has urged businesses to “release” staff from work during natural disasters so they can prioritise family safety.

Tongan artist Mia Kami uses her art to highlight the threat climate change poses to her country’s existence.

A Tongan advocate describes how living with a disability adds to the challenge of preparing and living through a natural disaster in the Pacific.

After almost one year of crisis accommodation and cramped living, families from Mango Island finally have a home.

Trust in the media was one of the things discussed at the recent disaster risk reduction forum in Brisbane.

How remote Fijian communities communicate with their councils.

Incredible survival stories, and how communities are coping now, one year on from the Tongan volcanic eruption and tsunami

Island hopping and drinking coconut milk; it’s all part of the job.

After the main road was washed away due to rising sea levels, students from a remote school in the Yasawa Islands are travelling to school by boat.

Coastal Pacific communities who rely on the ocean will soon have access to tidal information included in new calendars

Locals have regained access to a critical water supply which was lost in the tsunami earlier this year.

Tongan youths give their thoughts on climate change and living with natural disasters, which are becoming more frequent and destructive for them.

The volcanic eruption in early 2022 has sharpened the focus of the Tonga Broadcasting Commission when it comes to emergency coverage and broadcasting.

Two large earthquakes left some Solomon Islands residents panicked and concerned, but the country avoided any tsunami threat

The early warning tsunami sirens in Tonga proved valuable after a strong earthquake hit off the coast on November 11.

A campaign to have climate change recognised as a human rights violation is moving forward and the Vanuatu government is hopeful of an outcome

As the cyclone season starts for 2022-2023, weather and emergency offices are issuing predictions and warnings hoping to prepare communities.

Finding different ways to communicate health messages to the community in Palau

Increasingly more powerful storms and cyclones are chipping away at a Fijian village coastline, and their homes are under threat.

A researcher has been working with young people in Fiji to get an idea of what they know about traditional methods of reading the environment, and where they learned it.

Aside from the logistical challenges of moving a village, there are more reasons why this short-term solution to climate change is complex in the Pacific.

Trust in the media was one of the things discussed at the recent disaster risk reduction forum in Brisbane.

Tongan authorities are hoping that weekly tsunami siren tests will raise awareness of the meaning of the sound, and also what people need to do after hearing it.

Residents have had to quickly take stock of their situation as communications and power went down in areas near the large earthquake of September 11.

Climate plea from one of the most vulnerable countries in the world