Torres Strait 8 have called for Australia to achieve net zero emissions by 2030, and for the government to further invest in infrastructures like sea walls and renewable energy sources in the region.

A $15 million, one-kilometre sea wall on Boigu, Australia’s northernmost point, was finished this year. Many wonder how long it will take for it to be breached, too. Torres Strait – also known ...

In 2018, more than a dozen Yam Islanders were left homeless after a sea wall built to protect them ... next to Ngurapai (Horn Island) in the Torres Strait Islands archipelago.

Uncle Paul Kabai steps barefoot along a beach near a fallen sacred tree and onto the mud and broken coral edging his Torres ... the sea is rising by 6-to-8 millimetres a year in the strait ...

after spending 24 hours lost at sea. Picture: Facebook Mr Tabuai’s rescue on Wednesday after his dinghy capsized in a remote area of the Torres Strait has been called “a Christmas miracle”.

In 2022 Torres Strait Island Regional Council pursued Sea Swift through the Supreme Court to recover $66m from Sea Swift in what was alleged to be unpaid fees incurred while delivering goods to a ...