In Tonga, a volcano-triggered tsunami underscores islands' acute climate risk

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laid bare some of the ways that climate change is threatening the islands' very existence.

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laid bare some of the ways that climate change is threatening the islands' very existence.

"While we are resilient and trying to adapt, it only takes a few extra metres of water to cover a house, to kill a child or family," said Ms Shairana Ali, CEO of the international charity Save the Children, in neighbouring Fiji. Sea levels around the archipelagic nation of 105,000 people are increasing by about 6mm per year, nearly twice the average global rate, according to the UN's Global Sea Level Observing System.

With climate change warming the ocean's surface, such storm surges are more likely as the warm water fuels increasingly powerful cyclones.in the last four years, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.Tongan temperatures are already rising, with the average daily temperature now 0.6 deg C higher than it was in 1979. The frequency of hot days and hot nights has gone up across the Pacific.

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