Rising Waters Chase Residents Inland
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Rising seas have forced 100 people on a Pacific island to move to higher ground, a U.N. report said.
Inhabitants in the Lateu settlement on Tegua island in Vanuatu started dismantling their wooden homes in August and moved about 600 yards inland.
Taito Nakalevu, a climate change expert at a Montreal conference, said the rising seas seemed linked to climate change, but it was unknown if the island’s coral base was subsiding.
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