Earlier this year, journalist Dan Box won recognition from environmentalist George Monbiot for documenting the world's first climate change evacuation, of the Carteret islands in the South Pacific. Now, he returns to his experiences to ask if this is the first evacuation of many, how should we do it in future?
… 26 km 2 Coastline 24 km Highest point above sea level 5 m Population 12,373 … km 2 Coastline 370.4 km Highest point above sea level 10 m Population 64,522 … km 2 Coastline 1,143 km Highest point above sea level 81 m Population 105,432 …
Lying off the coast of Papua New Guinea, the Carteret Islands are slowly being engulfed by a rising sea. Follow Dan Box's weekly blog as he journeys to meet the Carteret Islanders - the first people to be officially labelled as climate change refugees.
… Islands are slowly being engulfed by a rising sea. Follow Dan Box's weekly blog as he … that surrounds them. As climate change causes sea levels to rise, their crops and wells of … an island 50 miles away across the open sea. This will make the Islanders the world’s …
'You have camera?' The taxi driver makes a tube out of his forefingers and thumb and holds it to his eye.
… people are being evacuated before rising sea levels swallow up their home. The BBC gave … As their island homes are swallowed by rising sea levels, the people of the Carteret Islands …
Dan Box teaches a class about climate change and its effects on the Carteret Islands, which are sinking due to rising sea levels, and how children can help stop climate change.
… Islands, which are sinking due to rising sea levels, and how children can help stop … As their island homes are swallowed by rising sea levels, the people of the Carteret Islands …
Dan Box reports from a community in its death throes, as the Carteret islanders pack up their homes and prepare to become the world’s first climate change refugees
… that survived are withered, fighting off disease. The island itself is shrinking, too, as the sea eats away at the land. In some places you … islands, and which protects them from the sea. There, the waves slam down, and it is …
Dan Box makes a detour to the G20 climate protests in London, but leaves disappointed. Later, a lecture by Nicholas Stern, author of the Stern review, lifts his spirits.
… people are being evacuated ahead of rising sea levels, and the Beeb wanted me to practice … As their island homes are swallowed by rising sea levels, the people of the Carteret Islands …
Working up to his departure for the Carteret Islands to report on the world's first officially recognised climate change refugees, Dan Box considers how travel insurance takes on a whole new meaning...
… Scientists in Copenhagen are warning that sea-levels around the world could rise much … news from Copenhagen, we should expect the seas to rise one metre by 2100. Could I … As their island homes are swallowed by rising sea levels, the people of the Carteret Islands …
Dan Box is on-site to witness the world's first climate refugees being evacuated due to rising sea levels
… refugees being evacuated due to rising sea levels The evacuation of the Carteret … tides have washed away their crops and rising sea levels poisoned those that remain with …
While BP is facing billion-dollar lawsuits in the US, another British company, Cairn Energy, is beginning drilling off the coast of Greenland
… start drilling off Greenland, in a stretch of sea known as Iceberg Alley. Unusually, it will … more in such difficult conditions as the deep-sea bed … talking turkey... “Any investment …
Something is starting to bother me about this trip. It’s not the travelling (though when I picked up my flight tickets yesterday, the travel agent warned me that people in Papua New Guinea still wear bones through their noses. I promised to keep an eye out).
… As their island homes are swallowed by rising sea levels, the people of the Carteret Islands …
An inhospitable planet? As climate change forces increasingly large numbers of people to flee their homes, Ecologist blogger Dan Box considers what 'climate change refugees' actually means
… about the issue so much (a quick archive search turns up almost 10,000 newspaper … the agendas of environmentalists, conflict researchers and a heterogeneous group of … As their island homes are swallowed by rising sea levels, the people of the Carteret Islands …
The launch of the massive economic ecosystem assessment, TEEB, will help force the natural world onto the corporate balance sheet. It's a step forward. But how will protesters react to the ground shifting under their feet?
… the oil industry After BP, China plans deep-sea mining Russian expert says BP should blow …
I slept in my clothes last night, on the bare wooden floor of one of the houses the first boatload of people to be evacuated from the Carteret Islands are building for their families. It was a jet-black night in the small clearing hacked out amid the jungle, the dark broken only by our two candles and the lights of Fireflies jigging in the trees.
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With human beings about to become a predominantly urban species, Dan Box asks whether cities can ever be sustainable.
… says N’Dow. This ‘causes 80 per cent of diseases in the developing world’. Faced with … For no city stands alone. Almost all land, sea and air transport is between cities and … CURITIBA, BRAZIL High above sea level on the plateau of Serra do Mar, the …
Environmentalists have long been suspicious of the free market, but a new generation of campaigners are using capitalism to change the world.
… currently fundraising to buy the 18th-century Seaton Delaval Hall, an estate that sits plumb … inquiry.’ The old(ish) man and the sea Orri Vigfússon first made his fortune …
With two thirds of EU regulatory environmental protections already enshrined in UK law, is farming really in danger from Brexit?
… and Fisheries policies, “denuding our seas and exacerbating ‘abandonment’ and … the land as well as an intuitive grasp of the seasons and the integral part played by …
The Ecologist Guide to Food is no soft-centered feel-good flim-flam, warns Jan Goodey, as it tackles tough topics like the slave labour behind your prawns and tomatoes: essential reading for concerned gourmets everywhere.
… Egregious exploitation Andrew Wasley is a seasoned investigative journalist (a former … and short term lay-offs once the picking season is over. Small scale organic farming is … chemical smog causing respiratory and skin disease. Helpful Q&As As well as these topical …
With a new coalition government the opportunities for fresh thinking about managing the UK countryside are vast, reports Dan Box. And the Stiperstones nature reserve is providing plenty of inspiration...
… can move freely both northwards and uphill in search of new, cooler, habitats, the need to … from London’s Tower Bridge out into the North Sea. The National Trust, too, is beginning to …
… after that. Picking up on Will Steffen’s research at Australian National University, King … place by 2045, leading to an 8-metre rise in sea levels. This would mean that by then …
As fracking hits the headlines UK protests against the practice of blasting natural gas from shale rock are on the increase. Jan Goodey reports on the latest flashpoint in the urgent - and escalating - anti fracking battle
… cubic metres of shale gas lie in the rich seams of northern England, enough for decades … it would amount to more than all of the North Sea Oil accrued thus far. And although Frack … to the constant need for new wells until the seam is exhausted. America has areas like …