'The island is being eaten': how climate change is threatening the Torres Strait
by Ben Doherty and Michael Slezak from Environment | The Guardian on (#2W9Y1)
In Boigu, part of Australia but just six kilometres from Papua New Guinea, roads are being washed into the sea
Torres Strait residents face being forced from their homes by climate change, as their islands are lost to rising seas.
On Boigu Island, the most northerly inhabited island in Australia, just six kilometres from Papua New Guinea, the community's cemetery faces inundation and roads are being washed into the sea. A seawall installed to protect the community is already failing.
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