| inbluevt | Date: Sunday, 2013/05/05, 10:41 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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The deceptively calm waters of Langa Langa Lagoon on the west coast of Malaita Island in the Solomon Islands is home to thousands of people who have lived on
artificial islands for centuries. For generations the islanders in this
south-west Pacific nation have employed tenacity and ingenuity to
maintain their existence on these tiny low-lying man-made atolls, devoid
of freshwater and arable land. But climate change is now the greatest
threat to their survival.
“The seas are rough and the tides are getting higher. Sometimes the waves come right across the island during the wet season,” Alphonsus
Waleronoa said on Raolo Island, which has a total area of about 100
square metres.
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