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Marshall Islands: Seas Rising Faster Than Refugee Law Can Adapt

2016-07-02 17:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

News Deeply: Sandbags surround the Majuro airstrip while hurriedly-built bridges span flooded sections of road, and many Marshall Islanders have built seawalls to protect their homes on this remote nation in the Pacific Ocean. The Marshall Islands are made up of five main islands and 29 coral atolls spread across three-quarters of a million miles of ocean, but they amount to just 70 square miles of actual land. And even that is now at the mercy of the seas, which are rising thanks to climate change. The...

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