You Pay for Internet Service in Empty Buildings on Alaska’s Adak Island — ProPublica

U.S. phone customers pay more than $340,000 a year for an Anchorage company to keep homes and buildings on Alaska’s Adak Island wired for obsolete internet service. All but a few of them sit empty...

 https://www.propublica.org/article/adak-island-alaska-internet-subsidy-fcc

Family pleads for answers in death of young Black man in Mississippi

The main question, according to Crump, is that the group of three friends who traveled with Wells to the island said Wells told them he wanted to stay on the island with a young woman when they left on the afternoon of 4 July. But the young woman has said that Wells got on the boat with ⁠the boys. 

Crump also said that videos circulating online allegedly show Wells in a heated argument with ​his friends. The videos could not immediately be verified ​by Reuters. 

Also raising suspicions, according to Crump, ​is that Wells’s phone was found not with his body, but in the possession of one of the young ​men who had accompanied him ‌to Horn Island. Wells’s mother ​tracked it down using Life360, a family-location safety platform, ​and she said it appears that several social media messages had been deleted from the phone...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/11/mississippi-nolan-wells-death

 

There's an island off the coast of Albania. Jared Kushner wants it.

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4P_mhQYr3Fc

Sold to the Trump family: one of the last undeveloped islands in the Mediterranean

Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner have spent more than $1bn on an Albanian island that will be a luxury resort – once the unexploded ordnance has been removed…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/24/trump-family-kushner-undeveloped-island-mediterranean-sazan-albania

 

‘The island has been shrinking’: living on the frontline of global heating

…Once I owned four acres of farmland. In the past 20 years, three-quarters of it has been lost under the sea. This year I have been forced to buy rice for us, for the first time in my life…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/01/the-island-has-been-shrinking-living-on-the-frontline-of-global-heating

The military paid for a study on sea level rise. The results were scary. - The Washington Post

More than a thousand low-lying tropical islands risk becoming “uninhabitable” by the middle of the century — or possibly sooner — because of rising sea levels, upending the populations of some island nations and endangering key U.S. military assets, according to new research published Wednesday.....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/04/25/climate-change-could-make-thousands-of-tropical-islands-uninhabitable-in-coming-decades-new-study-says/

America's first climate change refugees are preparing to leave an island that will disappear under the sea in the next few years - Business Insider

America comes to an end here. Connected to the marshes and moss-laced bayous of southern Louisiana by two miles of narrow causeway, waters lapping high on each side, Isle de Jean Charles takes you as far into the Gulf of Mexico as you can go without falling in. But the dolour in the salt air is not just about loneliness and separation. It's about impending demise.....
http://www.businessinsider.com/isle-de-jean-charles-climate-change-refugees-2018-4

Republican climate activists visited a disappearing island to convince Americans the threat of sea-level rise is real — these photos show how grave the situation has become -- Business Insider

Boys who live on Tangier Island, a sliver of land in Virginia that is disappearing due to climate change-fueled sea level rise. Across the United States, communities are seeing the effects of climate change: more severe flooding, rising water levels, and hotter temperatures. There is one place where climate change is perhaps most imminent. ....
http://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-republicans-trump-executive-order-tangier-island-2017-12/#tangier-island-has-been-eroding-for-over-100-years-but-lately-rising-water-levels-and-more-frequent-storms-have-increased-the-rate-of-land-loss-1