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View of the Sau reservoir about 100 km (62 miles) north of Barcelona. Spain, Monday, March 20, 2023. The Sau reservoir's water levels now stand at 9% of total capacity, according to Catalan Water Agency data, so officials have taken the decision to remove its fish to stop them from asphyxiating. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

UN head says survival depends on how people manage water

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says humanity’s survival depends on how people manage water.

FILE - A man walks past a development site for a Chinese Investment bank in Nuku'alofa, Tonga, April 10, 2019. Beijing was targeting its Pacific aid to new diplomatic allies Solomon Islands and Kiribati while Chinese financial support across the region continued to decline, the Lowy Institute has reported, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022, in its latest annual analysis of regional aid. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

Report: China targets 2 diplomatic allies with Pacific aid

Leaders pose during the family photo at the Pacific Islands Forum leaders summit in Suva, Fiji, Thursday, July 14, 2022. (Samuel Rillstone/AAP Image via AP)

Pacific island national leaders declare climate emergency

FILE - Vice President Kamala Harris speaks while meeting with state legislators about protecting reproductive rights, Friday, July 8, 2022, in the White House complex in Washington. U.S. Vice President Harris assured Pacific island leaders of more U.S. engagement after acknowledging Wednesday, July 13, the United States may not have previously provided the diplomatic attention the region deserved.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Harris vows US will strengthen its Pacific islands relations

FILE - Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong talks to New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta at a bilateral meeting in Wellington, New Zealand on June 16, 2022. Wong on Tuesday, July 12, 2022 urged Pacific island neighbors to unite on their shared challenges of U.S.-China strategic competition, climate change and COVID-19. (Robert Kitchin/Pool Photo via AP, File)

US Vice President Harris to announce investments in Pacific

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi, left, and his counterpart from the Solomon Islands, Jeremiah Manele hold a joint news conference in Honiara, Solomon Islands, early Thursday, May 26, 2022. Wang and a 20-strong delegation have arrived in the Solomon Islands at the start of an eight-nation Pacific tour that comes amid growing concerns about Beijing's military and financial ambitions in the region. (AP Photo)

China’s FM visits Kiribati, where fishing ground is at stake

China’s foreign minister is visiting the remote Pacific nation of Kiribati, where the future of a vast fishing ground is at stake.

In this image supplied by the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF), crew wave to a RNZAF Orion near Makin Island in Kiribati, Monday, May 23, 2022. New Zealand's military said Tuesday that an air force plane found seven people who had gone missing. They were aboard two small boats near the remote Pacific nation of Kiribati. (RNZAF via AP)

New Zealand plane finds 7 missing aboard 2 boats in Pacific

Seven people on two small boats that drifted for days in the Pacific have been rescued after a New Zealand plane spotted them near the remote island nation of Kiribati.

FILE - In this March 30, 2004, file photo, Tarawa atoll, Kiribati, is seen in an aerial view. Kiribati and several other small Pacific nations were among the last on the planet to have avoided any virus outbreaks, thanks to their remote locations and strict border controls. But their defenses appear no match against the highly contagious omicron variant. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

COVID hits one of the last uninfected places on the planet

Kiribati and several other small Pacific nations were among the last on the planet to have avoided any virus outbreaks, thanks to their remote locations and strict border controls.

Mississippi burial set for Marine killed in World War II

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FILE - This March 30, 2004, file photo, shows Tarawa atoll, Kiribati. Ioane Teitiota and his wife fought for years to be allowed to stay in New Zealand as refugees, arguing that rising sea levels caused by global warming threaten the very existence of their tiny Pacific nation of Kiribati, one of the lowest lying countries on Earth. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Climate change creates migrants. Biden considers protections

No nation offers asylum or other protections to people displaced because of climate change. President Joe Biden’s administration is studying the idea, and climate migration is expected to be discussed at his first climate summit this week.