NOW on PBS Friday - Paradise Lost

A provocative look into the climate change crisis: Are some South Pacific islands beyond saving? NOW travels to the other side of the world to find out.

* Also, watch a web-exclusive video on how the tiny island nation of Niue is relying on both new and old techniques to save itself.

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Green Hawaii
Can Hawaii break its addiction to fossil fuels and become a model for sustainability? In this web-exclusive video, find out how local Hawaiians are turning their tropical paradise into an incubator for new green technologies.

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Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Island countries from Grenada in the Caribbean to the Maldives in the Indian Ocean are telling delegates at the United Nations climate-change talks this week that their lands may be swamped by rising seas and more powerful storms unless global warming is curbed.

Warmer temperatures are melting icecaps, expanding the volume of oceans and sending more intense hurricanes toward Grenada. Higher tides in the Tuvalu islands between Hawaii and Australia have started making groundwater too salty to drink for its 12,000 residents. The Maldives may buy land elsewhere and move all its islanders should rising waters engulf their land.

“We are already in danger -- it’s not that we Maldivians ever want to leave,” Amjad Abdulla, director-general of the nation’s environment ministry, said in an interview at the UN global-warming talks in Poznan, Poland. Relocation plans for the 300,000 residents from the low-lying atolls south of India are being drawn up for “a worst-case scenario.” ..cont'd


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