Climate Change Will Start Swallowing Small Islands Even Faster Than We Feared

SOURCE: Co.Exist

DATE: October 13, 2015

AUTHOR: Jessica Leber

SNIP: Low-lying island atolls—which are home to half a million people around the world—are some of the places most immediately threatened by rising sea levels. Now an unsettling new study from the U.S. Geological Survey shows that these vulnerable places could disappear at rates almost double what scientists had previously realized.