The Submerging Republic of the Marshall Islands Dispatch | Messages of Global Hope… A refreshing look at the human races extraordinary achievements in the battle against environmental tragedy.

"What do you do when your island home
is in the cross hairs of climate change
and faces forever being swallowed
by the tide of a rising ocean?"

The House without Floors

After an eventful final few days of travel, some much needed down time and reconnection with our families we are back. We now have the arduous job of logging the footage from the trip. Our plan is to pull moments from the 30-plus days we were shooting and post them to the site along with some editorial.

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This is erosion… All around these islands you see scenes like this where the beaches have been stripped away and all is left is the coral bedrock.

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This is a house that Freddy and I came across during one of our tours through Majuro in search of signs of Erosion. Although this is during low tide you can see how the sea level has risen up to erode the floor of this house. While we were shooting tape of this home the local family that lived behind this house mentioned that the waves regularly come up where the floor has fallen out and flood the rest of the house.

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You can see where the floor has been eaten away from underneath by the rising tide.

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This boy sits on what was either the homes’ floor, or exterior wall.

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