Tuvalu Is Drowning.

The tiny island nation of Tuvalu , which is located in the Pacific ocean between
Hawaii and Australia, may be the first casualty of global warming.
The arctic ice is melting, as it melts, the water level in our oceans rise. The ice
in the arctic caps is not a few inches, or a few feet thick – it’s a few miles thick.
That is a lot of frozen water. What happens when it melts? The sea levels rise
and land sinks.
As global warming causes the oceans to rise, low-lying islands like the nine
islands that make up Tuvalu are in danger of vanishing forever. Where will
these people go?
Many of them are now leaving for Australia and New Zealand. The 700,000
square mile area of the Bering Sea in the northern Pacific near Alaska is also
showing the effects. The environment around the Bering Sea has changed from
Arctic to sub-Arctic conditions. This change in the earth can no longer be ignored,
we do indeed have a real problem and it is growing.

Go here to read the story: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/03/31/tuvalu/index_np.html