A South Pacific island nation on the frontlines of the climate crisis brought “the world's biggest problem to the world's ...

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Fiji has been a long-time advocate for sustainability. In 2023, the country laid out its dedication to expanding renewable energy sources in its Renewable Energy Integration Investment Plan .

Most iguanas are indigenous to the Americas. So how did the Fijian species end up on the island, nearly 5000 miles away in the South Pacific? According to a new study in the journal PNAS, it was ...

Researchers who have studied genetic evidence of iguanas suggest the ancient reptiles traveled nearly 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji on floating vegetation. CNN values your feedback 1.

By floating on a raft of downed trees and broken branches, according to a study published Monday in the journal PNAS. ... Reaching Fiji would have been nearly 30 times as far.

And if the flotsam consisted of uprooted trees, the raft itself would have provided food. “You could imagine some kind of cyclone knocking over trees where there were a bunch of iguanas and maybe ...

They probably floated on a mass of uprooted trees or other plants. A Fijian crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis) rests on a coconut palm tree in Fiji. In a new analysis, ...

About 34 million years ago, iguanas sailed 5,000 miles from western North America and settled in Fiji. It’s not uncommon for iguana species to hop a natural raft and drift to a new island, but ...

The Fiji iguanas are an outlier All told, there are over 2,100 species in the suborder Iguania, a large group that also includes animals such as chameleons, anoles, bearded dragons and horned lizards.

Genetic evidence suggests that the reptiles somehow managed millions of years ago to make an ocean crossing from North America to Fiji. By Asher Elbein For decades, the native iguanas of Fiji and ...