Mid-Pacific Islands Seek Science Diplomacy to Deal With Rising Seas
August 23, 2017
August 23, 2017
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 -- The American Association for the Advancement of Science issued the following news release:
The Republic of Kiribati is currently facing one of the cruelest realities imaginable: Within 100 years, rising oceans will swallow up the islands that comprise its land, leaving 110,000 citizens without a home. And now they are, as a people, engaged in a fight for survival.
Kiribati is a mid-Pacific nation of 34 islands, mostly ring-shaped atolls that are n . . .
The Republic of Kiribati is currently facing one of the cruelest realities imaginable: Within 100 years, rising oceans will swallow up the islands that comprise its land, leaving 110,000 citizens without a home. And now they are, as a people, engaged in a fight for survival.
Kiribati is a mid-Pacific nation of 34 islands, mostly ring-shaped atolls that are n . . .