{"id":42090,"date":"2022-03-02T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/01\/a-strange-phenomenon-new-island-in-papua-new-guinea-prompts-territorial-dispute"},"modified":"2022-03-02T03:00:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T18:00:17","slug":"a-strange-phenomenon-new-island-in-papua-new-guinea-prompts-territorial-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42090","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A strange phenomenon\u2019: new island in Papua New Guinea prompts territorial dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While many Pacific communities are facing shrinking coastlines, a newly formed island has led to generational and tribal fights<\/p>\n<p>While across the Pacific communities are dealing with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/12\/pacific-forum-leaders-set-permanent-maritime-borders-as-rising-seas-shrink-islands\">shrinking coastlines<\/a>, one area in Papua New Guinea has an altogether different problem: a new island that has solidified and started supporting vegetation in the last few years<strong> <\/strong>has caused tensions and even outbreaks of violence as competing clans lay claim to the land.<\/p>\n<p>That fight has been intensified as communities struggle to deal with the consequences of warming oceans and the devastating impact of natural disasters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/01\/a-strange-phenomenon-new-island-in-papua-new-guinea-prompts-territorial-dispute\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many Pacific communities are facing shrinking coastlines, a newly formed island has led to generational and tribal fightsWhile across the Pacific communities are dealing with shrinking coastlines, one area in Papua New Guinea has an altogether di&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2933,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2331,65,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2933"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42091,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42090\/revisions\/42091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}