Climate-threatened Solomon Islanders prepare for evacuation

Climate-threatened Solomon Islanders prepare for evacuation

26 NOVEMBER 2013

AUKI, MALAITA PROVINCE, Solomon Islands – In the Solomon Islands, where the sea level rise of 8 millimetres per year is almost three times the global average, survival of communities on the low-lying atoll of Ontong Java is already threatened. 

But identifying a new home for those who are eventually displaced will be difficult, even in this sprawling nation of more than 900 islands located northwest of Fiji, in the southwest Pacific region. ...

 

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