#theguardian.com. #Feb.26.2025 × ‘We try to put applicants off’: couple chosen as live-in caretakers on uninhabited Irish island. Recently married couple selected to look after Great Blasket, the largest island on Europe’s most westerly archipelago
#Iceland #Republic of Ireland #Afro-Eurasia × #Europe
#washingtonpost.com. #Feb.19.2025 × Climate change is robbing Pacific islands of another resource: Tuna. Fourteen Pacific island nations will receive $107 million to adapt their tuna-dependent economies as climate change pushes the fish farther from their shores.
#Weather #Iceland #Afro-Eurasia × #Europe
#washingtonpost.com. #Feb.18.2025 × Trump wants Greenland and Gaza. That might embolden China on Taiwan.. Trump’s transactional style is unnerving many in Taiwan, who fear it will encourage Chinese leader Xi Jinping in his ambitions to take control of the island.
#Politics #China #Xi Jinping #Iceland #Afro-Eurasia × #Europe #Asia #Taiwan
#theguardian.com. #Feb.12.2025 × Solomon Islands landowners seek compensation over catastrophic oil spill. Claim over the 2019 Rennell Island disaster, which saw more than 300 tonnes of fuel leak into the water, filed in the Solomons High court
#Iceland #Afro-Eurasia × #Europe #Insular Oceania #Solomon Islands
#theguardian.com. #Feb.06.2025 × State of emergency declared on Santorini after earthquakes shake island. Greek civil protection authorities announce measures after an estimated 7,700 tremors in less than a week
#Iceland #Afro-Eurasia × #Greece #Europe
#theguardian.com. #Feb.05.2025 × ‘Everyone is on tenterhooks’: Santorini streets empty after days of tremors. Thousands of locals and tourists have fled Greek island amid fears of bigger earthquake or volcanic eruption
#Iceland #Afro-Eurasia × #Greece #Europe
#theguardian.com. #Feb.04.2025 × ‘There is nothing here’: the island left behind by Lagos’s economic boom. Politicians in Nigeria hope the country’s largest city will one day look like Dubai, but on nearby Refuge Island people live without electricity
#Business #Politics #Nigeria #Africa #Iceland #Afro-Eurasia × #Europe
#theguardian.com. #Feb.03.2025 × People flee Santorini as earthquake fears grow. Residents and tourists scramble to leave Greek island on ferries and planes after ‘barrage’ of tremors
#Iceland #Afro-Eurasia × #Greece #Europe
#wikipedia.org. Afro-Eurasia. Afro-Eurasia (also Afroeurasia and Eurafrasia) is a landmass comprising the continents of Africa, Europe, and Asia. The terms are compound words of the names of its constituent parts. Afro-Eurasia has also been called the "Old World", in contrast to the "New World" referring to the Americas. Afro-Eurasia encompasses 84,980,532 km2 (32,811,167 sq mi)
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