Millennium Island, Kiribati, 2009.For whatever reason, I find this astronaut picture of an uninhabit
Millennium Island, Kiribati, 2009.For whatever reason, I find this astronaut picture of an uninhabited atoll haunting. Like the inhabited islands of Kiribati, all of which are coral and rise only a few meters above mean sea level, the land portions of this atoll will be underwater should sea levels rise the several meters climate science and oceanography project to occur over the next couple of decades.Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Gallery/islands.php?src=eoa-features -- source link
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