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Islanders help remap North Shore mass transit at bus workshop
2015-12-16 07:23:26| Railroads - Topix.net
In comparing a bus map from Staten Island 40 years ago to one in circulation today, there are very few differences. Yet the borough's population has more than doubled in that time.
Virginia Islanders US First Climate Change Refugees
2015-12-11 17:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: For Tangier Island, Va., lifelong resident Claudia Parks, climate change is a direct threat to her golf cart. As flooding and erosion have worsened on the Chesapeake Bay island in recent decades, the tour director with a broad smile avoids certain saturated roads at least 15 times in the spring and fall during tidal events on her regular work route. That involves getting visitors past the local ice cream shops, white picket fences and marshy hills that dot this car-free fishing community. When...
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As the summit starts, islanders consider life on the move
2015-11-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: Micah Puia lives in a shanty town on a dirty beach in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands. He is 11 years old, and has lived here all his life. He sleeps in a raised fibro hut with his grandparents and several cousins, attends second grade at a local school and swims in the mouth of the Mataniko River, alongside the community's cotes of pigs and chooks, and where the waterway dumps into the Pacific Ocean. According to some here, Micah has spent his whole life as a climate change refugee....
Meet the Indian islanders losing ground to the sea
2015-11-13 15:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: When the ice on the mountains melt, the sea level rises and causes flooding, says Firoz all of twelve years. For this young inhabitant of Ghoramara Island, located in the Bay of Bengal, climate change is not just a lesson in geography but an everyday reality. One night my mother woke me up hurriedly saying that our house was crumbling, he recollects with a toothy grin, his innocence evidently untouched by misery. Once sprawling across 8.51 sq km, Ghoramara, part of Hooghly rivers estuary,...
Bikini islanders seek US refuge as sea levels threaten homes
2015-10-27 21:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: About 1,000 Bikini islanders have applied to relocate to the United States as rising seas threaten their adopted home. The residents were moved from their Pacific atoll as result of atomic bomb tests in the 1940s. But their new home, on another of the Marshall Islands, is struggling against huge tides and increasing storms. The islanders have now asked Washington to change the terms of a trust fund to allow them settle in the US. In 1946 several hundred islanders were moved from Bikini...