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With Each Passing Month the Situation Gets More Desperate: Climate Change Sinks Carteret Islanders

Though it may be a number of years before your life is personally impacted by climate change, for people in low-lying island nations rising sea levels is already a fact of life. One such place is the Carteret Islands off the coast of Papua New Guinea. TreeHugger recently interviewed documentary filmmaker Jennifer Redfearn about her work-in-progress Sun Come Up, which chronicles the efforts of these people to uproot their lives and find new home.

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Image credit: Jennifer Redfearn

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