Four fishermen who spent hours huddling together on their capsized boat off the coast of American Samoa have been rescued.
Posted on - 2018-04-26
Four fishermen who spent hours huddling together on their capsized boat off the coast of American Samoa have been rescued.
Posted on - 2018-04-26More than a thousand low-lying tropical islands risk becoming "uninhabitable" by the middle of the century — or possibly sooner — because of rising sea levels, upending the populations of some island nations and endangering key U.S. military assets, according to new research published Wednesday.
The threats to the islands are twofold. In the long term, the rising seas threaten to inundate the islands entirely. More immediately, as seas rise, the islands will more frequently deal with large waves that crash farther onto the shore, contaminating their drinkable water supplies with ocean saltwater, according to the research.
The islands face climate-change-driven threats to their water supplies "in the very near future", according to the study, published in the journal Science Advances.
Posted on - 2018-04-26For the first time 25 traditional Polynesian voyaging leaders have gathered to discuss how they can work towards creating a better environmental balance.
The Ho'okele Honua Summit was held at Honolulu's Bishop Museum over the weekend.
Posted on - 2018-04-24