People who live on low-lying atolls in the Pacific like Roi-Namur in the Republic of the Marshall Islands may have to evacuate due to rising sea level in as little as 12 years, according to a new study by researchers from the USGS, NOAA and the University of Hawai‘i’s International Pacific Research Center. The paper appears in the new issue of the journal Science Advances, … [Read more...] about University of Hawaii researchers say sea-level rise will harm low-lying islands far earlier than previously thought