http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/151020-rising-seas-pictures-photos-climate-change-kiribati/
Rising seas are damaging the Pacific Islands. Teweiariki Tearo is a poet in Kiribati, an island in the central Pacific. He describes how the storm swells seems to flood homes and damages the land in Tarawa, Kiribati's capital. When Tearo returned in April, he only had a matter of time to repair what was damaged until "the ocean challenged the islands defenses once more." Tearo says, " I see adaptation as not just about seawalls but about revisiting our traditional knowledge systems. We need the collaboration of our international partners, but an active collaboration as people who are empowered to tackle our own problems.” He writes in one of his poems that the island will "rise over troubled seas."
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