A year ago, almost all the inhabitants of the island of Gardí Sugdub in Panama left, following warnings that their homes would be swallowed up by the sea. All that remains is silence and a few people. ‘I will die here,’ says 62-year-old Luciana Pérez, who has chosen to stay.
Rising sea levels are a looming disaster that risks hitting Pacific island nations particularly hard. This is the message from UN Secretary-General António Guterres at a summit of Pacific leaders: - I am in Tonga to issue a global SOS - Save our Seas - on rising sea levels.
