Lost at sea: the race against time to save the Carteret Islands from climate change

They were supposed to be underwater by now.

Children help with the work on Carteret Island.

The Carteret Islands in the Pacific were the first place in the world to require population relocations due to climate change related sea level rises, with predictions they would be submerged by 2015.

However the islands are still there sitting roughly 90 kilometres from northern Bougainville, but only just — with a highest point of just 1.5 metres, the atolls are vulnerable to even slight sea level rises.

Read the ABC News story/pictures by Darren James - “Lost at sea: the race against time to save the Carteret Islands from climate change.”