When atoll nations are told that they may have to leave due to rising seas, I think of their fathers’ and mothers’ bones. Climate crisis threatens Pacific island nations – they rob us not just of the living, but also of our dead, writes Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson.
Tag: sea level rise
How do we mourn an island? Where do we mark its grave?
Marshall Islands is uniquely at risk for climate change, islets are disappearing, and it is so dire that we’ve been forced as a nation to completely change the way we plan for our future, writes Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner.
Crucial coastal protection set to begin under the Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project
Tuvalu set to begin construction of coastal protection infrastructure on Funafuti under the Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project
Kaua’i becomes one of first counties in nation to regulate development based on sea level rise projections
Kaua’i initiates new bill which amends construction design standards to incorporate expected sea level rise impacts
Cook Islands partners up to counter climate change
Cook Islands seeks assistance from New Zealand to help their islands impacted by climate change
As oceans rise, are some nations doomed to vanish?
Maldives, Tuvalu, the Marshall Islands, Nauru and Kiribati may become uninhabitable by 2100, creating 600,000 stateless climate refugees as sea level rise, according to a study
Amid rising seas, island nations push for legal protection
Pacific Island nations push for legal protection as climate change threatens their existence
Could a digital twin of Tuvalu preserve the island nation before it’s lost to the collapsing climate?
With rising seas expected to submerge Tuvalu by 2100, official says ‘we should always be able to remember Tuvalu as it is before it disappears’
Sea level rises forcing community to relocate from Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea
Carteret Islands community in PNG have no choice but to give up the way of life of generations before them due to sea level rise caused by climate change
‘This place will crack’: Centuries-old graves threatened by the sea
All down the 200-kilometre southern coast of Fiji’s Viti Levu island, climate change is not just imperilling the dead, but endangering the living.