Island Wipe-out

Yahoo Travel featured a very interesting (and highly alarming) article today about the big, BIG possibility of some islands disappearing on the face of the Earth due to global warming.


Excerpts from the article:



Maldive IslandsCountry: Republic of Maldives

At stake: $490 million

On the Ground: This chain of islands in the Indian Ocean is about three feet above sea level, and scientists fear it could be submerged by 2050. A $63 million buffer built in the 1990s hasn’t solved the problem, so the government is in talks to relocate all 386,000 of its residents to either Sri Lanka, Australia, or India. That would end the Maldives’ tourism industry—more than 600,000 people visit annually—which accounts for 30 percent of the country’s gross domestic product.



To read the full article, click here.


Please take some time to read the article, it's very relevant. We do want to save our islands, don't we?


Article excerpt aggregated from Yahoo.com