Sentences with phrase «island nations in»

Overstock has announced a strategic investment in Bitt.com, a Caribbean - based financial technology firm working to move island nations in that region to adopt digital national currencies.

According to Pauly, all of the 20 Pacific island nations in his study underreported catches because they didn't include the catch of local fishers (something developed nations like the U.S. fail to do as well).

The lack of adequate, safe and sustainable waste management has been one of the most critical environmental challenges facing the world's developing countries; island nations in particular must grapple with growing consumption and finite space for waste disposal.

With small island nations in peril, these days President Gayoom evokes the vision of a United Nations where «name plates are gone; seats are empty.»

An Auckland University researcher has offered new hope to the myriad small island nations in the Pacific which have loudly complained their low - lying atolls will drown as global warming boosts sea levels.

Unlike many other island nations in the Caribbean, Jamaica is comprised of just one large land mass.

There are more than 20 island nations in the Caribbean that tempt honeymoon couples and other romantics with natural beauty that includes extensive beaches, unlimited sun, tropical breezes, and exquisite sunsets.

Many island nations in the region have entirely different social, economic, and cultural norms from one another.

Tropico 5 Penultimate Edition also offers a multiplayer mode, where players will compete / cooperate with other island nations in a shared world.

Remote island nations in the Pacific and Indian Oceans have for many years been considered extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change and, in particular, rising sea levels.

Around the world, from Alaska's remote North Slope to the island nations in the South Pacific, coastal communities are watching their shorelines slip away into the rising seas.

Two weeks ago, environment ministers from Australia, New Zealand and 13 island nations in the South Pacific met in Brisbane, Queensland, to discuss the tests.

«Island nations in the western Pacific region are subjected to more tropical cyclones than anywhere else worldwide,» said Thomas Marler, ecologist with the University of Guam.

More recently, several island nations in the western Pacific and Indian oceans formed the Coral Triangle Initiative, adopting a 10 - year plan of action to avert growing threats to coral reefs, fish, coastal mangrove buffers and other marine resources across the region.

Matos's father, who hails from a family of cattle ranchers in Cuba, fled the island nation in 1967.

Starting next week, tour operator Cuba Travel Services will begin offering what it says is the first regularly scheduled direct charter service from New York to Havana since President Barack Obama restored diplomatic relations with the island nation in December.

Malta, a small island nation in the Mediterranean, has fashioned itself as a leader in digital ledger technology regulation.

«You could make a safe and stable, annualized return, both in good times and bad, on this little island nation in the sun,» reports McMahon.

An experiment kicking off in a small island nation in the north - west of Europe later this year could point the way to an answer.

But a third species, M. nesiota, lives on a volcanic island nation in the Indian Ocean known as the Comoros.

New Zealand An island nation in the southwest Pacific Ocean, roughly 1,500 kilometers (some 900 miles) east of Australia.

The studies took place in Australia and in Palau, an island nation in the Western Pacific.

She completed her midwifery training in Vanuatu, a small island nation in the South Pacific, at the main hospital in Port Vila.

Japan is an island nation in East Asia.

New Zealand is an island nation in the south - west Pacific Ocean consisting of the North and South Islands, approximately 1,500 kilometres east of Australia.

And though Iceland may not come out on top of most lists for favorite places to jet off to for spring break, the island nation in the North Atlantic is actually an amazing place to visit any time of the -LSB-...]

Take a look at five money saving tips for enjoying this island nation in the Eastern Caribbean without breaking your travel budget.

You can find this low - lying island nation in between the Indian and Arabian seas has luxuriously appointed bungalows set over dazzling blue waters and surrounded by talcum - soft white sand beaches — basically everything that bucket lists are made of.

But it's the flag carrier of the country of Bahrain, an island nation in the middle of the Persian Gulf that has a fascinating history but has not yet made it on the international tourist radar in the same way as Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and the other cities of the nearby United Arab Emirates.

Jamaica is an island nation in the Caribbean that has everything a person could possibly want from a travel destination.

Palau is a tropical paradise island nation in the Pacific.

Good thing I will spend the next days in Palau, another island nation in the Pacific.

Dean's phenomenologically steeped work relates to radical experiments in film by the Canadian Michael Snow, but they are also part of a more venerable British pastoral tradition that has affected the arts of that island nation in literature and music as well as the visual arts.

Kiribati, a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean, has thesmallest carbon footprint.

The development represents the latest step in a wider effort to make Mauritius — an island nation in the Indian Ocean with an estimated population of 1.2 million people — a hub for blockchain startups.

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She also reported on the Arab Spring and its impact on the global markets, providing detailed coverage of the uprising in the island nation of Bahrain.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added St. Kitts and Nevis — two islands, one nation — to its list of countries and territories with local transmission of the Zika virus in September.

However, as the League of Nations fell apart in the 1930s and was then replaced by the United Nations, the ruling on the status of Hans Island carries little to no weight.

World Atlas notes that the island was decided to be Danish territory by the Permanent Court of International Justice of the League of Nations in 1933.

In an essay published in local media, Fidel Castro celebrated his 89th birthday Thursday by arguing that the United States owes Cuba «many millions of dollars» because of the trade embargo Congress imposed on the island nation back in 1963, according to a report in L'Agence France - PresIn an essay published in local media, Fidel Castro celebrated his 89th birthday Thursday by arguing that the United States owes Cuba «many millions of dollars» because of the trade embargo Congress imposed on the island nation back in 1963, according to a report in L'Agence France - Presin local media, Fidel Castro celebrated his 89th birthday Thursday by arguing that the United States owes Cuba «many millions of dollars» because of the trade embargo Congress imposed on the island nation back in 1963, according to a report in L'Agence France - Presin 1963, according to a report in L'Agence France - Presin L'Agence France - Presse

Nigeria's request reiterated its support for Beijing's «One China» policy, which demands that countries break official relations with Taiwan, as Beijing pulls economic levers in Africa and elsewhere to woo nations away from the island it regards as rebel - held territory within Chinese borders.

Raul Castro has made it clear in no uncertain terms that communism is still the rule in the island nation.

In 2010, the Obama administration granted the status to Haiti after a massive earthquake that devastated the island - nation, killing an estimated 220,000 and displacing 1.5 million.

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP)-- Eni will proceed with more exploratory drilling south of Cyprus over the next 20 months, affirming a «strong engagement and commitment» in a hydrocarbons search off the east Mediterranean island nation, the Italian company's chief executive said Wednesday.

Singapore, the smallest nation in Asia, occupies a 225 - square - mile expanse of swampy, tropical islands — an area about the size of Trenton, New Jersey.

Many nations around the world find themselves in a delicate balancing act between U.S. and Chinese interests, but one island nation perhaps typifies that struggle.

A high - tax state with some of the steepest utility costs in the country, Rhode Island's fiscal woes are persistent, hindering its ability to improve one of the nation's worst infrastructures.

The California tech giant has partnered with some of Indonesia's top telecom companies for its Project Loon initiative that aims to improve connectivity in the Southeast Asian nation of 250 million, especially for those scattered across its 17,500 mountainous and jungle - filled islands, USA Today reports.

Most of its foreign employees and manufacturing facilities were already located in the Caribbean, and Gildan's founder and then CEO Greg Chamandy explained in a press release that the small island nation was attractive because of its high literacy rate and excellent telecommunications system.

Senior levels of Australia's defense force are said to believe China wants to increase its military presence in the South Pacific via the island nation of Vanuatu.