Rising Waters - Islanders Flee Homes Video (2min 44sec). Hamish MacDonald travels to the Carteret Atoll off Papua New Guinea. It's home to 1,000 people but slowly their homeland is disappearing under the sea.
Rakina Moi, Resident: "The sea has washed away a big part of this island. We are very short of food, again. No bananas growing. No all those fruits that we live on. Nothing os on those trees that we eat."
The rising sea level has made it almost impossible to grow crops and increasingly homes are under threat.
Bernard Tunim, Resident: "Industrial countries can still help us. Countries like America, England, Australia, even. And New Zealand. If these [people can spend millions and millions on sending troops to fight other countries, why can't they spend maybe a couple of millions just to save people like ourselves..."
