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 The plight of submerging small island states gets a rare turn in the spotlight with an award-winning documentary, “Someplace with a Mountain”. (Satellite Image of Poluwat by Google) When Californian Steve Goodall decided to embark on a sailing trip around the world, he never expected to stumble on a climate-change crisis in …Read More: South Pacific: Climate Change Documentary on Sinking Micronesian Island  Small islands are finding creative ways to navigate the changing seas that some climatologists are predicting over the next decades. (Low and narrow, Kiribati is at risk from seawater) The remote and tiny Pacific nation of Kiribati has been making plans to buy up Fijian real estate over the last year, but …Read More: South Pacific: Kiribati Eyes Fiji as Climate Change Sanctuary  The government of the tiny Cook Islands is busy preparing for an unusually high-ranking guest at this week’s Pacific Islands Forum – including having to borrow SUVs from residents. (Rarotonga image from cookislands.org.uk) With 15 diverse member states scattered over the vast South Pacific, the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) always …Read More: South Pacific: Islanders Await Hillary Clinton at Pacific Islands Forum  Lying perilously close to sea level, the small island nation of the Maldives has to come up with creative solutions to combat the effects of climate change. (Image Courtesy of Waterstudio.NL) It’s a terrifying spectre; an entire island chain being submerged beneath rising seas like a modern-day Atlantis, leaving thousands …Read More: Indian Ocean: Maldives Fights Rising Seas with Floating Islands  Less than three months after his controversial resignation as president of the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed is back hitting the press circuit. (Film at theislandpresident.com) It’s almost unheard-of for the leader of a small country like the Maldives to achieve international prominence, but in the case …Read More: Maldives: The Island President Speaks Out  The Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives is one of a number of countries threatened by rising sea levels, and the president is looking to Australia for a potential new home. (Maldives Island Image by Patrick Verdier) The 350,000 residents of the Maldives, a group of picture-perfect tropical islands found …Read More: Worldwide: Small Islands Preparing for Climate Change Evacuations  At a recent meeting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government, Seychelles president James Michel made a strong case for a sustainable future. (Image Courtesy of the United States Africa Command) The Indian Ocean nation of the Seychelles is a place of beauty and luxury; small private island resorts commanding high …Read More: Worldwide: Sustainability is the Future for Small Islands  The premier of a riveting documentary about President Mohamed Nasheed has brought global attention to the real impact of climate change on island nations. (Poster by Actual Films) Few images are as dramatic as that of an entire nation being simply washed off the face of the planet. Like a …Read More: Indian Ocean: President of the Maldives Becomes a Climate Change Icon |
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