{"id":13,"date":"2016-05-10T12:42:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T12:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/sustainability\/?p=13"},"modified":"2016-05-10T12:42:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T12:42:53","slug":"climate-change-islands-in-south-pacific-disappearing-under-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sustainability\/2016\/05\/10\/climate-change-islands-in-south-pacific-disappearing-under-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change: Islands in South Pacific Disappearing Under the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are 5 reef islands in the Solomon Islands (South Pacific) that are now under water due to sea level rise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-0\">See: <a href=\"http:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1748-9326\/11\/5\/054011\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Interactions between sea-level rise and wave exposure on reef island dynamics in the Solomon Islands<\/a>&#8220;,<span> <span class=\"nowrap\">Simon Albert<sup>1<\/sup><\/span>, <span class=\"nowrap\">Javier X Leon<sup>1,2<\/sup><\/span>, <span class=\"nowrap\">Alistair R Grinham<sup>1<\/sup><\/span>, <span class=\"nowrap\">John A Church<sup>3<\/sup><\/span>, <span class=\"nowrap\">Badin R Gibbes<sup>1<\/sup><\/span> and <span class=\"nowrap\">Colin D Woodroffe<sup>4<\/sup><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 415px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/sustainability\/files\/2016\/05\/Solomon_Isles.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/sustainability\/files\/2016\/05\/Solomon_Isles-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"By Jim Lounsbury - Wikipedia, Copyrighted free use, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=9403460\" width=\"415\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sustainability\/files\/2016\/05\/Solomon_Isles-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sustainability\/files\/2016\/05\/Solomon_Isles.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jim Lounsbury &#8211; Wikipedia, Copyrighted free use,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 5 reef islands in the Solomon Islands (South Pacific) that are now under water due to sea level rise. See: &#8220;Interactions between sea-level rise and wave exposure on reef island dynamics in the Solomon Islands&#8220;, Simon Albert1, Javier &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sustainability\/2016\/05\/10\/climate-change-islands-in-south-pacific-disappearing-under-the-sea\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[551,122896,8165],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-ocean","tag-sea-level"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}