It is on a list of 10 countries that may unfortunately disappear in the future because climate change is causing sea level rise.
1. Solomon Islands: They gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1978 and is now an island country in Oceania, made up of 990 islands spread over two archipelagos.
2. Maldives Islands: due to rising sea levels, they have been losing territory millimeter by millimeter, and little by little they are disappearing from the map, in the last congress on climate change, more than 200 scientists based on research claim that the Maldives islands will have disappeared before this century ends.
3. Fiji Islands: these islands are known by the whole world thanks to tourism, in January 2009 the islands suffered major floods and suffered enormous damage to tourist infrastructure, they are still recovering from the economic, political and social crisis.
4. Samoa: Perhaps the first victims of this phenomenon, the island suffers subsidence due to erosion, and they have already lost many natural reefs.
5. Tuvalu: the almost 12 thousand inhabitants of this island are currently already being evacuated, the ocean has already covered much of its territory.
6. Kiribati: some scientists point out that these islands have no more than 50 years of life left, so far two of them have already been completely covered.
7. Vanuatu: one of the Pacific islands that are suffering the most damage due to climate change, the ecosystem and the coasts have already left their first evidence.
8. Bangladesh: without detracting from the importance of the other islands, this is a real problem, in Bangladesh there are more than 15 million people, a city made and right, which in recent years due to the rise in sea level, have lost 15% of their territory.
9. Nauru: another island where more than 10 thousand inhabitants live, due to climate change is also doomed to disappear.
10. Marshall Islands: of these islands its main territory is Marujo, which has already lost 20% of its territory.
Authors: Santiago
