Impact of climate change on Coral Reef Island, changing shapes instead of shrinking

Wellington, AFP Due to climate change the sea level is rising continuously. The biggest danger is small islands. It has been claimed in many studies that due to the increasing water levels in the coming few decades, small islands can be absorbed into the sea.

Now in a new study, scientists have claimed that the lower reef island (i.e. made from algae reefs) in the Pacific region is changing its shape rather than shrink due to climate change.

Coral Islands, such as Tuvalu, Tokelau, and Kiribati, which are located only a few meters away from the sea level, are considered to be the most vulnerable to global warming.

It is also feared in a report that people of these islands can become refugees in the future if the level of water increases.

But in a recently published study, the researchers said that the island made from coral reefs are changing their size rather than drowning in the water due to rising seawater because these islands are not made of solid rock, but with small organisms Are made.

Researchers said that such islands gradually change their shape. This can affect the plans made to deal with the dangers of climate change.

Ford, who is also co-authored by Auckland University, said that low-lying atolls have begun to appear more clearly than the older estimates.

However, he said that not all coral islands are suddenly changing their shape because there are dense populations in many islands and there are many deserted people.

The uninhabited island is growing alongside the level of the sea compared to the population. He said that it depends on the government and the local communities how they adapt themselves over time, but we feel that this study exposes the fact that these islands are themselves adaptable to nature and local The community should also make themselves friendly to it.

This study, published by researchers from New Zealand, UK, and Canada, was published by the Geological Society of America.

Researchers tested the effects of rising seas and hurricanes due to climate change, in which they found that the peak of many islands has grown very high.