Sunken wrecks, hot seas threaten fishermen on Italian isle
| | LAMPEDUSA, Italy, 8 July 2026 (AFP) - Once the beating heart of this Italian island community, fishermen on Lampedusa are under pressure on multiple fronts, from nets ripped by sunken migrant wrecks to a warming Mediterranean Sea. The semi-arid outcrop, closer to North Africa than Italy, is a port of call for people attempting the perilous crossing to Europe, and their capsized or abandoned boats dot its emerald depths. |
This is Europe's most tourist-dense island
| | JERUSALEM, Israel, 8 July 2026 (JP) - While popular holiday destinations such as Mallorca, Tenerife, Santorini, and Barcelona are seeing protests against overtourism, one European country is choosing the opposite approach: Welcoming more visitors. A new study by travel website BookRetreats ranks Malta as Europe’s most tourist-dense island destination - but instead of slowing the flow, authorities are already planning to attract another half a million visitors over the next decade. |
Curacao highlights packaging design barriers to island recycling
| | ARNHEM, The Netherlands, 8 July 2026 (PI) - The TUI Care Foundation has expanded its recycling project in Curaçao to boost tourism's role in reducing plastic waste through design-for-recycling and packaging material choices. In collaboration with local organization Green Phenix, the second stage of Destination Zero Waste Curaçao is set to incorporate 100 tourism and hospitality businesses, with the aim of collecting, sorting, and recycling 25 metric tons of plastic waste and 30 metric tons of other waste materials. |
Indonesian rubbish mountain has been on fire for more than a week
| | JAKARTA, Indonesia, 8 July 2026 (BBC) - For eight days, a fire has been burning at a waste mountain in Indonesia. The blaze at Jatiwaringin landfill, on the outskirts of the capital Jakarta, has spread across more than 15 hectares, smothering the area in thick, toxic smoke and displacing hundreds of local residents. |
Island life changed how Brazil's Noronha skink reproduces
| | SAO PAULO, Brazil, 7 July 2026 (Conversation) - Visitors to the Fernando de Noronha archipelago, located about about 340 miles off the coast of Pernambuco in northeastern Brazil, soon notice a small lizard. Seemingly ubiquitous, it roams among rocks, trails, and urbanized areas, approaching people and stealing food in plain sight when it can, and rarely flees. This animal is the Noronha skink, a species found exclusively in this archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. |
Rocket test flight could be attempted from Shetland in August
| | LERWICK, UK, 7 July 2026 (BBC) - SaxaVord Spaceport in Shetland has announced a "launch window" for a possible rocket test flight. The company said launch attempts could be made during a five-week period beginning on Monday 10 August, if conditions were right. It said restrictions would not be in place for the full five weeks, and residents would get 24 hours' advance notice of a test. |
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CIS |
 | | Critical Island Studies 4th international conference 3-4 Oct, 2024, Manila, Philippines |
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CBD |
| | COP16 21 Oct-1 Nov, 2024, Cali, Colombia |
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UNFCCC |
| | COP29 11-22 November, 2024, Baku, Azerbaijan |
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| | DARKNESS II conference, 20-23 January 2025, Nuuk, Greenland |
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JICAS |
| | Islands And Island Studies conference 3-7 June, 2025, Jersey, Channel Islands |
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UNITED NATIONS |
| | UN Ocean Conference 9-13 June, 2025, Nice, France |
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UPEI |
| | 3rd international conference on SIS and SNIJs 16-20 June, 2025, Charlottetown, PEI |
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ARCTIC COUNCIL |
| | UArctic Congress 26-29 May 2026, Torshavn, Faroe Islands |
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SICRI |
| | Island Studies International Conference 25-28 June, 2026, Tacloban City, Leyte Islands, Philippines |
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ISISA |
| | 20th Islands of the World Conference 7-11 July 2026, Shinan County, Jeollanam-do, South Korea |
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SPREP |
| | 11th Pacific Islands Conference for Nature Conservation and Protected Areas, 7–11 September 2026, Noumea, New Caledonia |
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ANATOMY OF ISLANDS |
| | 14th Anatomy of Islands symposium 15-17 Oct, 2026, Jelsa, Hvar Island, Croatia |
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IWRA |
| | 2nd Islands Water Congress 9-11 Dec, 2026, Montego Bay, Jamaica |
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