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Netflix Expands Programmatic Ad Sales with Yahoo DSP
TV Tech
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June 16, 2025
Netflix has announced that it is expanding its global programmatic ad offerings by partnering with Yahoo DSP. This will enable brands to buy Netflix advertising through Yahoo programmatically. The offering is expected to be available later this...
University of Hawaiʻi program for women in geosciences ends due to Trump Administration’s funding cuts
Big Island Now - Hawaii
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June 13, 2025
Field work in Kāneʻohe Bay was supported by an early Catalyst Awards for Science Advancement award. (Photo Courtesy: University of Hawaiʻi) A program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa that supported dozens of career development activities for...
Savusavu swimmer earns Fiji call
FBC News
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file photo - Imelda Smith Eighteen-year-old Imelda Smith’s swimming journey began quite unexpectedly when she joined her sister for a recovery session at the pool. Little did she know that what started as a casual, fun activity in her youth would,...
OPINION Yamashita: Solving Guam's teacher shortage
Pacific Daily News
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Teachers—something we all have in common. The great, the not so great. During my teacher training courses, students share their memories of the great ones. Great teachers are those that helped. Who understood. Who were always fair. Who taught us...
Support for women in STEM, community outreach cut with federal funding loss
University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
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June 12, 2025
Reading time: 2 minutesField work in Kāneʻohe Bay was supported by an early CASA award. A program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa that supported dozens of career development activities for women in geosciences and community outreach was...
UN Ocean Conference Opens With a Call to Defend the Deep Sea
Inside Climate News
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June 9, 2025
NICE, France—The deep sea—Earth’s largest and least-explored biome—is taking center stage at the United Nations Ocean conference this week, where marine experts are demanding world leaders end bottom trawling for fish and impose a moratorium on...
“The System Has Failed Us”: Why Leituala Is Running for Parliament
Samoa Global News
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June 12, 2025
“The System Has Failed Us”: Why Leituala Is Running for Parliament Leituala Dr Ben Matalavea has spent nearly forty years at the frontline of medicine, split between the well-resourced hospitals of a developed country and the overburdened,...
Indigenous coastal communities join ocean acidification fight
Oceanographic Magazine
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June 12, 2025
The Makah tribe is located in a region that was the first in the world to observe the impacts of changing ocean chemistry on traditional foods, including shellfish. Their Action Plan is a decisive step towards addressing this critical issue with...
CHamorus were skilled farmers
The Pacific Island Times
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June 14, 2025
J.A. Pellion's 1824 illustration of CHamoru farmers for Freycinet's collections. Photo courtesy of Guampedia Our Islands, Our People By Raquel Bagnol When Ferdinand Magellan and his crew landed on Guam in March 1521, they immediately recognized...
Pacific fishery council asks Trump to free up Hawaii’s newest marine sanctuary
The Pacific Island Times
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June 13, 2025
By Pacific Island Times News Staff The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council will ask President Donald Trump to lift fishing restrictions within Hawaii’s newest marine sanctuary, in line with his administration’s policy to recharge...
Under pressure: pessimism ahead of session of Seabed Authority
Cosmos
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June 11, 2025
The International Seabed Authority continues the 30th session meetings at the end of this month, meeting in various sessions almost every day until a full Assembly in Kingston, Jamaica, from 21 to 25 July. The provisional agenda of the Assembly...
Wealth beneath the waves: US takes a step toward promoting deep-sea mining amid concerns in the Pacific
The Pacific Island Times
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June 11, 2025
Around 16,404 feet beneath the northern Pacific Ocean, the whole seabed—stretching around 4,500 miles from east to west—is littered with potato-sized chunks of what look like charcoal lumps called polymetallic nodules. Rich in metals such as...
High Seas Treaty hits historic 50 ratifications… but still no UK
Oceanographic Magazine
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June 10, 2025
Covering nearly half the planet, the High Seas – the international waters that lie beyond countries’ maritime borders – are woefully under-protected, with only 1.5% currently safeguarded within marine protected areas. The robust measures under the...
‘Madness’: World leaders call for deep-sea mining moratorium at UN ocean summit
Mongabay
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June 11, 2025
World leaders have renewed calls for a global moratorium on deep-sea mining at the 2025 U.N. Ocean Conference (UNOC) in Nice, France, as the U.S. moves to mine the deep sea in international waters under its own controversial authority. Four...
The Cadí cooperative received the 10th International Catalonia Award for the Best Business Project
All Andorra
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June 14, 2025
The Cadí cooperative, based in La Seu d’Urgell, a town in the Pyrenees region of Catalonia, Spain, and the capital of the Alt Urgell county (cat. Alt Urgell) in the province of Lleida (cat. Lleida), known for its cheese and butter production, has...
'We show up': Pacific leaders apply pressure at oceans summit
Barron News Shield - Wisconsin
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Nowhere is humanity's exploitation of the oceans more starkly illustrated than the Pacific Ocean, where small island nations are fighting to outlast a crisis not of their making. The islands are besieged by rising seas and worsening storms, their...
Foreign Minister Focuses On Pacific Resilience During Visit To France
Scoop
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Rt Hon Winston Peters Minister of Foreign Affairs Foreign Minister Winston Peters has taken part in two major international events in Nice, France this week, focused on Pacific resilience, prosperity and security. The sixth Pacific-France Summit,...
These Are The 50 Richest Countries By GDP Per Capita
Zero Hedge
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GDP per capita is a rough proxy for a country’s average living standards. A higher GDP per capita usually reflects more economic resources available per person, a signal for prosperity. However, like all statistical measures there are caveats: it...
Overtourism protests are planned across Spain on 15 June – will it affect exhibitions?
EN
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June 12, 2025
A new bout of overtourism protests are scheduled for 15 June across Spain – in the Canary Islands, Majorca, Barcelona and other cities like Ibiza, Valencia and Bilbao. A number of exhibitions are scheduled the following day. Will they see any...
Myanmar Military News Updates – Jun 12, 2025 Evening
MoeMaKa
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June 12, 2025
Myanmar Military News Updates – Jun 12, 2025 Evening 🚩🚩 1. Three Civilians Captured and Executed by Junta Troops in Hpakant June 12 In Hpakant Township, Kachin State, three civilians were reportedly captured and executed by the junta’s military...