Sea Level Rise Is Already Swallowing Up Islands

Sea level rise isn’t a distant threat: It’s already swallowing islands, according to a recent study.

The study, published Friday, found that sea level rise and coastal erosion has caused five low-lying coral atolls in the Solomon Islands to disappear into the ocean. These islands were vegetated — once densely-so, the Washington Post reports, with palms, oaks, mangroves, and other trees — but weren’t populated.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/05/09/3776546/islands-swallowed-sea-level-rise/