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Residents of Serua Island in Fiji rejected relocation offers and are instead reinforcing their homes and infrastructure. According to AFP, a disaster risk-reduction plan prepared with Habitat for Humanity in 2025 showed the vulnerability of nearly all the island's houses.
Otabek YusupovThe Fiji rugby team beat Japan 34-28 in a friendly match in Tokyo held to mark the centenary of the Japan Rugby Football Union. It was the first game of new coach Jake White, who said the team could become «a powerful force» at the 2026 World Cup in Australia.
Otabek YusupovResidents of the Fijian village of Rukurukulevu are switching to solar panels due to high electricity bills amid slowed fuel supplies from the Persian Gulf after the US and Israel struck Iran in February. Fiji's government plans 90% renewable energy by 2035 and investment in solar and hydropower, but fears water and electricity rationing due to El Niño.
Otabek YusupovResidents of the Fijian village of Naidiri have been restoring fish stocks since 2009: they created a protected zone on the Coral Coast, and since 2011 young people have been planting corals and mangroves — in 2023 alone, 18,000 corals and 10,000 mangroves. After a heat wave with water temperatures up to 39°C, about 20% of the corals survived — 'super-corals' resistant to warming, which are now being transplanted into deeper waters near Suva. Sharks have returned to the reef.
Madina Usmonova
