New Seawall on Tarawa Island

Man standing on top of a sea wall at low tide in the community Temwaiku-Tenei, on Tarawa Island, where the rising ocean is slowly encroaching on their community. Kiribati, is a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean in risk of disappearing because of sea level rise caused by melting sea ice and ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. The rising sea levels also contaminates their drinking wells with salt water.