The Wire

A new report from the United Nations has shown that glaciers are melting at alarming rates in Norway, France and in the Italian and Austrian Alps. But closer to home, people living on a small atoll to Australia’s north are feeling the effects of global warming right now. The Cartaret Islands, north east of PNG, are only a metre above sea level. Each year the tidal surges on the island are getting bigger, damaging the islands’ fresh water sources and food growing areas. It’s estimated their island will be unihabitable by 2015, and the Cartarets are now planning to evacuate to nearby Bougainville.