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Grand Theft Auto IV – XBox 360 – Let’s get to the other islands! with Commentary – Video

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HIGHLIGHTS: Faroe Islands 2- 7 Scotland // FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015 Qualifier – Video

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5 things to do when visiting Derawan Islands

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Widely considered a divers paradise, these remote islands in East Kalimantan lure non-divers as well. The Jakarta Post Travel list five things to do in Derawan.

1. Islands and Islets hopping

Those who want to nurture their fantasy of being stranded on an island, where every turn of the eyes finds beautiful white sand beach and the horizon, may realize their dream in Derawan, with the bonus of not really being stranded.

This cluster of islands comprises 31 islands and islets and is much less touristy than areas such as Bali..

Some of Derawans famous islands, aside from the main Derawan Island, are Pulau Kakaban, Pulau Maratua, and Pulau Nabucco where the rare species of coconut crab can be found.

Motor boat rental prices depend on boat size, starting from Rp 300,000 (US $ 27.01) per person.

Use your bargaining skills to get the best deal. Most boatmen here prefer lump sum figures such as Rp 5 million for three days for six people.

2. Explore the village

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Man-made jungle islands spell extinction for the smallest critters

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Nidhi Subbaraman NBC News

Sep. 26, 2013 at 2:15 PM ET

Anthony Lynam

The Chiew Lam Reservoir is surrounded by rainforest, and dotted with more than a hundred forested islands.

In 1987, the Thai government finished flooding 65 square miles of rainforest to feed a hydroelectric dam. The wide blanket of jungle, chock-full of small mammals, became an inland archipelago comprising more than a hundred tiny islands. Stranded, the smallest of the furry critters are now dying off. All but one, that is: The hardy Malayan field rat.

This isn't just a problem in Thailand, say researchers. Jungle tracts across the world are being carved into isolated patches, separated by roads or agriculture. The rapid elimination of the island mammals in the Chiew Lam Reservoir foretells the fate of forests elsewhere.

"We observed the annihilation of an entire group of animals all native small animals," Luke Gibson, a graduate student at the National University of Singapore told NBC News, adding that the "dramatic results are a warning" for other similarly fragmented landscapes. "It seems really bleak for these small forest fragments," he said.

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This 'moonrat' is among the last of a dwindling population of small mammals still living on the islands of the Chiew Lake Reservoir.

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Cayman Islands travel guide

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Best for The beach, romance, families, watersports, food, nature, pampering, escapism.

Unless youre a banker, diving is the number one reason to come to this affluent tax haven. Around the trio of islands are over 300 marked dive sites, ranging from pristine, shallow reefs, to stunning, precipitous walls and shipwrecks. Crystal-clear waters, minimal currents and first-rate diving schools make the destination ideal for inexperienced divers, and for snorkelling. At Stingray City, you can even commune with the marine life by simply standing on a sandbar.

All that said, the appeal of this British Overseas Territory does not solely rest with what lies beneath. This is particularly true of Grand Cayman, by far the most developed island. As well as high-quality accommodation and restaurants, it has the fantastic white-sand Seven Mile Beach (actually only five and a half miles long) - lined with shiny high-rise hotels and condominiums, it has something of a Miami feel to it. The smaller islands of Little Cayman, where iguanas have the right of ways on roads, and Cayman Brac, with hiking trails and a parrot reserve, are infinitely slower paced and more down to earth.

Timing advice For diving, November to April, when waters are calmest and visibility is best; the annual Pirates Week festival, with street dances, a parade and fireworks, runs November 7-17 2013.

Book with Caribtours, Dive Worldwide, Kenwood Travel.

More information caymanislands.co.uk.

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Islands fight to stay above water amid climate change

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Rising seas, disappearing glaciers, melting ice, storm surges: The threat of climate change still feels distant to many people.

Not for residents of small, low-lying islands in the Pacific. Global warming has arrived, and it's turned their nations - Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Palau, Kiribati and others - into slowly sinking ships. In some regions, the freshwater has turned salty, farmlands are barren and officials say rising waters will submerge entire nations by century's end unless concerted action is taken.

Concerted action has most definitely not been taken.

As a result, many of these countries have resorted to extreme measures. They've engaged global legal experts to figure out whether a drowned nation still exists, have threatened legal action against coal plants a hemisphere away and have tried to drum up support for a case at the International Court of Justice. Quixotic as these tactics may sound, they risk alienating wealthy countries - the very ones they'll rely on for humanitarian aid to help refugees from droughts and floods.

"There's a real existential question for these islands," says Earthjustice attorney Erika Rosenthal, who works with small island states to stem the volatile tides of global warming. For these tiny nations, climate change raises the "most urgent questions of national sovereignty."

Sound like Sturm und Drang? More like Apocalypse Slowly. Well before the water submerges them, the islands will become uninhabitable. Salt water contaminates drinking-water supplies and ruins arable land. Subsidence and increased flooding wipe away coastline dwellings. Then there's the evil twin of global warming, ocean acidification, which harms sea creatures and those who eat and sell them.

In the capital atoll of the Marshall Islands, "The principal source of drinking water is capturing rainwater runoff from the airport runway," because the groundwater has become undrinkable, says Michael Gerrard, a Columbia law professor who advises the tiny nation on legal remedies. Insult to injury: The north of the country is in the midst of a serious drought. It's water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.

Climate-change talks and treaties have offered the islands little recourse. The United States, responsible for 18 percent of global emissions, hasn't ratified the Kyoto Protocol. Canada dropped out last year. Kyoto's successor treaty, to take effect in 2020, is being negotiated now, but carbon-emitting infrastructure moves at a much faster pace than international bureaucracy. "Every time a coal-fire plant is built, they're locking in infrastructure" that contributes to future warming, says Rosenthal - and delaying an inevitable move to renewable energy. Climate-change negotiators generally agree on a goal to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius, but analysts say that goal is unrealistic and has likely already been scuttled.

When the survival of your island nation rests with powers much larger than you, what do you do?

In 2009, the Marshall Islands' ambassador to the U.S. asked Gerrard to look into that very question, as well as other queries that sound surreal: Is a country underwater still a nation-state? Does it retain its seat at the United Nations? What happens to national assets like fishing rights? And where should its citizens go? (No easy answers, but the questions are explored in a recent book Gerrard edited.)

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Salmon Jack Cod creek Sight Casting Fly Fishing Whitsunday Islands Andy Thomsen Andysfishing – Video

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Sex in Asia, Japan protects islands, Suicide and more. QiRanger Podcast Ep. 2013-18 – Video

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Marshall Islands president calls for global action to solve climate change

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Christopher Jorebon Loeak, president of the Marshall Islands, wants world leaders to take action against global warming.

There is no more important response than leadershipnot in words but in actions, not in promises but in commitments, not in delay but in doing what is right, and doing it now, Loeak said.

At a World Leaders Forum event Wednesday, Loeak spoke of his countrys efforts to lead by example in addressing the immediate threat of global climate change. The Marshall Islands, a confederation of over 1,000 islands in the Pacific Ocean located 2,400 miles southwest of Hawaii, is one of only four coral atoll nations in the world and sits at an average of only two meters above sea level. This makes it uniquely vulnerable to climate change, with the dual hazard of rising seas and ocean acidification threatening to submerge the nationand with it, a way of life.

For some, climate change is an important part of the issuebut one of many and distant threats, Loeak said. In the Marshall Islands, climate change has already arrived.

This emergency entered a critical stage last spring, when Loeak declared a state of disaster during a drought that left more than 6,000 people surviving on less than a liter of water per day. Six weeks later, a king tide crashed over the seawalls of the capital city of Majuro, flooding the airport tarmac and many urban residences, including Loeaks own home.

Our islands is who we arenot just our culture, but our personal identity, Loeak said, stating that the majority of Marshallese, himself included, would go down with the islands should they flood completely rather than abandon their home country.

Loeak stressed, however, that Marshallese and other Pacific Island leaders are still hopeful for a global solution to this problem.

While countries like mine will be the first to go, we are only the front line. No country is immune. We must take up greater responsibility, governments and citizens alike, to win this war. It is a war for nothing less than the future of humanity. It will take every one of us, he said.

Loeak spoke of the efforts of the Marshall Islands to reduce its carbon footprint by switching from imported fossil fuels to sustainable energy sources, such as solar panels. It is my hope and my intentions that every house, school, clinic, and dispensary will be completely powered by the clean and natural energy of the sun, he said.

Other Pacific Island nations have followed the example of the Marshall Islands, with Tuvalu setting the goal of exclusively relying on sustainable energy by 2020.

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Pakistan gets three new islands

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New Delhi, Sep 26 (IANS) Pakistan has just got three brand new islands -- thanks to a major earthquake.

When the shock of the temblor subsided Tuesday, people living in the coastal town of Gwadar were stunned to see a new island in the sea.

That's not all. Two other islands have come up along the Balochistan coast.

"The island near Gwadar is about 600 feet in diameter and has a height of about 30 feet," Muhammad Moazzam Khan, technical advisor at WWF - Pakistan, told IANS over telephone.

He said "gas was coming out" of the island, which primarily consists of "stones and soft mud".

The two islands near Ormara town are small.

Khan said the islands had a diameter of about "30-40 feet and a height of about 2-3 feet".

"Gas is also coming out," he said.

He said that while some islands which form suddenly "stay on", others gradually fade away.

He explained that the islands were formed following the massive earthquake that rocked Balochistan province Tuesday.

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