The future of low‐lying reef islands has been the subject of international concern, scientific
debate, and media interest in the last decade. As a result of sea‐level rise, atoll islands are …

In December 2004, a huge tsunami in SE Asia claimed many lives and caused catastrophic
damage. This event has stimulated a debate about the role played by coastal ecosystems …

The world's coastlines represent a myriad of dynamic and constantly changing
environments. Heavily settled and intensely used areas, they are of enormous importance to …

Low-lying atoll islands are widely perceived to erode in response to measured and future
sea-level rise. Using historical aerial photography and satellite images this study presents …

Recent assessments of future risk to atoll habitability have focused on island erosion and
submergence, and have overlooked the effects of other climate‐related drivers, as well as …

Coral reef islands are among the most vulnerable environments on Earth to climate change
because they are low lying and largely constructed from unconsolidated sediments that can …

Increased flooding due to sea level rise (SLR) is expected to render reef islands, defined as
sandy or gravel islands on top of coral reef platforms, uninhabitable within decades. Such …

The geological stability and existence of low-lying atoll nations is threatened by sea-level
rise and climate change. Funafuti Atoll, in the tropical Pacific Ocean, has experienced some …

Abstract The Indian Ocean tsunami flooded the coastal zone of the Andaman Sea and left
tsunami deposits with a thickness of a few millimetres to tens of centimetres over a roughly …

Abstract On January 15th, 2022, at approximately 4: 47 pm local time (0347 UTC), several
weeks of heightened activity at the Hunga volcano 65 km northwest of Tongatapu …