9 MAY 2013
The Marshall Islands senior climate change advisor says most of the shoreline on the atoll of Ailinglaplap is eroding away.
Steve Why says the infrastructure at risk of eroding includes three airstrips, roads, causeways and schools.
Ailinglaplap is home to 1,700 people who live scattered on different islands in the atoll, which are about 30 to 90 centimetres above sea level.
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Source: Radio New Zealand International