Pacific islands swallowed by rising seas

• Autores: Alice Klein
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3143, 2017, pág. 11
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In 2016, Simon Albert at the University of Queensland in Australia found that five of the Solomon Islands had been lost since the mid-20th century. Now, Patrick Nunn at the University of the Sunshine Coast has observed similar losses in Micronesia. His team did coastal surveys, spoke to local people and reviewed satellite images for the island of Pohnpei and several low-lying islands. Pohnpei itself shows little coastal erosion, perhaps because it is fairly high above sea level and ringed by mangrove forest. Three small islands to the west are also well preserved; they are sheltered by the main island