26 AUGUST 2015
The relocation of villages as rising sea levels spoil crops among other things, has begun for several countries across the region including Fiji. In Tuvalu, the devastation caused by Cyclone Pam in March is still being talked about and for the Federated States of Micronesia, March marked the evacuation of about 1000 people on Majuro and 250 in the Arno Atoll: forced to flee massive king tides.
Outside the region, June marked the death of 2500 people in India and 2000 in Pakistan, from heatwaves. Such extreme events among others were indeed predicted in the inter-governmental panel on climate change (IPCC) fourth assessment report in 2007.
Source: The Fiji Times