Islands

Climate change is an existential threat to many small islands. Some of them are so low lying that the rise in sea level threatens entire coastlines or even their entire area. Solutions are developed not only scientifically, but also politically and socially, how best to react to the rise in sea level.

7 October 2021|CEN News

Coastal Erosion in Maldives: Is Climate Change the Only Cause?

Küstenerosion auf der Insel Insel Fuvamulah, die zu den Malediven.

Photo: UHH/CEN/B. Ratter

Small island countries like Maldives are severely affected by climate change and the resulting rise in sea level. The atolls in the Indian Ocean lie just a meter above sea level, and current projections to the end of this century call for an average global sea-level rise of more than a meter...

15 July 2015|Forschung

World Map with Island Data

Photo: Inseldatenbank

Now anyone interested in exploring the diverse range of small islands visually can use an interactive online world map.