The Final Years of Majuro
A Wendover Productions Documentary
About the Video KAREN EARNSHAW December 10, 2019. Incoming email from Wendover Productions: “We’re a small US-based digital media production company that’s been contracted by a streaming site called Nebula to produce a series of 45-minute documentaries relating to isolated places. The first of these was released last week, about St Helena, and we’re now Read More
Adapting to Sea Level Rise
The World Bank has produced a five-minute video about future ocean inundation scenarios for Majuro Atoll. The video is part of a study produced jointly by the World Bank and the RMI government called “Adapting to Rising Sea Levels in the Marshall Islands.” It provides visual projections about the flooding that is forecast to occur Read More
Fight for Climate Justice
Highly recommended viewing! Thanks to the Thomson Reuters Foundation for sharing. Karen The Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean are sinking because of climate change. Litokne Kabua, a 17-year-old climate activist, is part of a global youth movement fighting to save his own home and the rest of the world.Watch the full film ‘Young Lives Read More
Rise: From One Island to Another
The website 350.org has an enormous new poem/video on climate change that features the Marshall Islands’ Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner and Greenland’s Aka Niviâna. Here’s their description of the piece of visual and audio art: Watch this poetic expedition between two islanders, one from the Marshall Islands and one from Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), connecting their realities of Read More
Ship Grounded on Taka Atoll
January 4, 2019: The commercial fishing vessel, the Ou Ya Leng No. 6, ran aground at remote Taka Atoll in the north of the Marshall Islands on January 3. According to Kenneth Kramer of the local company PII, on Friday they deployed two tugs to the atoll to “assess the situtation” while they await the Read More
Video: Their Country is Disappearing
Chris James of CNN’s Beme News, which can be found on YouTube, came to Majuro recently and produced an excellent clip on climate change. Here’s the description of the footage titled Their Country is Disappearing: “How would you react if someone said your entire country could be uninhabitable in just a matter of years? Chris Read More
Ocean Day Clean Up
Weeks of organizing paid off last Friday as the members of various local NGOs volunteered to do beach cleanups around Majuro in honor of World Oceans Day. The local beaches and ocean environments were the winners, with tons of plastic, cans, and assorted debris picked up and brought to disposal centers. One group, the members Read More
Marshall Islands From Above
While filming for the story on the nuclear waste dump in the Marshall Islands, the ABC’s Foreign Correspondent team of Mark Willacy, Greg Nelson, and Ben Hawke amassed more visuals than they could use in the episode. So here, for your viewing pleasure today, is a compilation of the best shots they captured from their Read More
Kathy’s Latest Masterpiece
In her new poem ‘Anointed’ Marshallese poet and activist Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner explores the nuclear testing legacy of the Marshall Islands through the legends and stories of Runit Island on Enewetak Atoll. The poem was written and performed by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, the video was directed by Dan Lin, and produced by PREL (Pacific Resources for Read More
Enewetak’s Runit Dome
I have just added a video about Enewetak’s Runit Dome to the Enewetak page https://www.infomarshallislands.com/atolls-a-l/enewetak-atoll/ Over 2.5 million people subscribe to a YouTube channel called Be Amazed. In April, 2018, the group did a clip on Enewetak’s Runit Dome. Here’s what they wrote on YT: “You’ll be amazed by this dome hidden away on a Read More
