A study has found that in the Solomon Islands five islands have completely disappeared as a result of rising sea levels; six more are experiencing something similar so the number could rise.
Sirilo Sutaroti, 94, leader of the Paurata tribe, affirms that the rising sea level has achieved that they have to move to the highest part of the island and the reconstruction of the town.
In a recent report by Environmental Research Letters, scientists link destructive sea level rise to a climate change caused by human. The study marks the first time anyone has specifically looked at the loss of the Solomon Islands coastline in the context of global warming.
This report comes at a time when coastal towns, which would be inhabited by a few hundred people like Sutaroti, have spread to appear in certain groups where there are elevations of land more conducive to life.
The island of Taro, a Northwest Atoll Village from the Solomon Islands, it has become the first provincial capital on the planet where people have moved to other places due to climate change.
The Solomon Islands, which consist of six main islands and about thousands smaller, it is one of the least populated nations of the Pacific islands. About half a million people live in about 25.000 square kilometers. And while it might seem the opposite, finding a safe place to call home has become quite a challenge for the inhabitants of these islands.
In the last 20 years the sea level has been rising around the Solomon Islands almost dramatically. Simon Albert, one of the authors of the study on these islands maintains that the disappearance of coastline and some islands is a harbinger of things to come.
Do you know the name of the islands that have already disappeared?