Bikini Atoll Islanders Seek U.S. Homes to Flee Rising Seas

Bikini Atoll islanders who were relocated before the U.S. began nuclear tests in the 1940s are now seeking refuge in the U.S., saying the rising seas and stronger storms brought on by climate change are making their new homes in the Marshall Islands uninhabitable.

Battering waves increasingly encroach on the airstrip on the island of Kili, where many of the Pacific islanders were resettled, while seawater is making the soil more saline, Marshallese Foreign Minister Tony de Brum told reporters in London. The republic has asked the U.S. to change the rules governing a fund set up in 1982 to ...