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This Pacific island nation plans to raise itself above the ocean to survive sea level rise The previous president of Kiribati, a low-lying island nation in the Pacific, predicted that the country's citizens would eventually become climate refugees, forced to relocate as sea level rise puts the islands underwater. But a new president elected in June now plans to elevate key areas of land above the rising seas instead.
In the right conditions, islands such as Kiribati's - coral atolls that surround lagoons - can actually naturally grow as the sea rises, says Paul Kench, dean of science at Simon Fraser University, who has been studying how the islands respond to sea level rise and who advises the Kiribati government. "The islands are made up of sand and gravel, so essentially they're really just large beaches," he says. "The elevation and the shape of these islands are controlled by waves that interact with the reef and transport sand and gravel to form the islands."
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