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Pacific Islands Not Sinking
For years, people have warned that the smallest nations on the planet – island states that barely rise out of the ocean – face being wiped off the map by rising sea levels. Now the first analysis of the data broadly suggests the opposite: most have remained stable over the last 60 years, while some have even grown. Wendy Zuckerman, New Scientist, 2 June 2010
It has been thought that as the sea level goes up, islands will sit there and drown. But they won’t. The sea level will go up and the island will start responding. Paul Kench, Auckland University, 2 June 2010
Full story in New Scientist: Shape-shifting islands defy sea-level rise