Posts Tagged ‘atoll’

‘This Is How A Pacific Atoll Dies’: Drowning Island Nations On Climate Change Threat

While world leaders from wealthy countries acknowledge the “existential threat” of climate change, Tuvalu Prime Minister Kausea Natano is racing to save his tiny island nation from drowning by raising it 13 to 16 feet (4 to 5 meters) above sea level through land reclamation. While experts issue warnings about the eventual uninhabitability of the […]

Bikini Atoll’s at Marshall Islands Marine Life Is Thriving 70 Years After Nuclear Bomb Tests

As the Cold War arms race was heating up just after World War Two, Bikini Atoll was showered in 23 nuclear warheads tested over a period of nine years. Scientists from Stanford University have returned to study the effect of long-term radiation exposure almost 60 years after the last A-bomb was detonated. Against all odds, […]

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