The Marshall Islands face a high risk of cyclones, and the low-lying islands are susceptible to coastal floods and tsunamis. Extreme heat and drought conditions have also recently affected the islands.
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By 2035, the U.S. Geological Survey projects that some of the Marshall Islands will be submerged. Others will no longer have drinking water because their aquifers will be contaminated with saltwater. As a result, Marshallese would be forced to migrate away from their homelands.
As climate change raises sea levels, they are becoming more extreme. King tides are nothing new for the Marshall Islands, a nation made up of 29 low-lying coral atolls that stretch across more than a million square miles of Pacific Ocean northeast of Australia.
The team found unsafe radioactivity levels not just in the air, soil, and water but in the fruit, too. The radioisotope cesium-137 is easily absorbed by food crops, including coconuts and pandanus, both important commercial crops in the Marshall Islands.