20 FEBRUARY 2017
- New research has shown that droughts and flooding rains in the Pacific are likely to increase as a result of climate change, as the greenhouse gas emission cuts in the Paris Agreement are not enough to stop the risk of these major weather disruptions in the region.
- A group of contractors have arrived on Manus Island to begin interviewing refugees about resettlement in the United States, while the Australian Senate has debated the forced deportation of others in the same detention centre.
Source: The Interpreter