‘We’re not giving up’: Beset by climate change, island nations act as conscience of a warming world
Palau President Surangel Samuel Whipps Jr. reported that rising sea levels have destroyed significant portions of his nation, including ancestral burial grounds, threatening their culture and identity.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — When Palau President Surangel Samuel Whipps Jr. recently took his children to his nation’s Helen Island, two-thirds of it was gone. Rising seas caused by climate change had swallowed generational burial grounds, washing away a people’s entire culture and identity. “For us, it’s devastating,” Whipps told The Associated Press on Friday, […]
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