A cemetery by the eroded coastline, Majuro, Marshall Islands. Most of the land in the Marshall Islands is no more than three feet above the high tide mark. Captions: AusAID / Department Of Foreign Affairs. Photo source: ©© Deutsche Welles
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The numerous atolls that make up the island nation are now regularly swamped due to sea level rise. But as more people flee for the US, many fear their culture will be lost to a country that has already taken so much from them…
Read Full Article, Guardian UK (09-15-2016)
Five Pacific islands vanish from sight as sea levels rise; New Scientist (05-09-2016)
Five of the Solomon Islands have been swallowed whole by rising sea levels, offering a glimpse into the future of other low-lying nations…
If an island state vanishes, is it still a nation?
Many Atolls May be Uninhabitable Within Decades Due to Climate Change, USGS (10-02-2015)
Vanishing Stories in a Vanishing Country; CNN (08-16-2015)
In Paradise, and Closer Than Ever to Disaster, The New York Times (Uploaded 04-02-2012)
VIDEO: Voices From the South Pacific – Part II (11-19-2010)
UNDP produced a film about the reality of climate change in the Pacific island of Kiribati. The film clearly shows how people’s lives are being affected right now by rising sea waters…
Will Pacific Island Nations Disappear as Seas Rise? National Geographic (02-15-2015)
Sea-level rise ‘could last twice as long as human history’; Guardian UK (02-13-2016)
Huge sea-level rises caused by climate change will last far longer than the entire history of human civilisation to date, according to new research, unless the brief window of opportunity of the next few decades is used to cut carbon emissions drastically…
Escaping the Waves: a Fijian Village Relocates, a Video (10-03-2015)
“When many understand climate change in concept but not through personal experience, this exhibit carries great weight…”
