On September 18, 2017, the category-5 Hurricane Maria ravaged the shores of Dominica, damaging or destroying 90 percent of its buildings and causing damage equivalent to 200 percent of the small Caribbean island nation’s GDP. In the aftermath, 20 percent of Dominica’s roughly 70,000 inhabitants had to flee due to lost homes or...
Climate Change
Oceans and Climate Change
A changing climate means a changing ocean. While the full impacts of climate change on the oceans are unclear, studies predict increasing temperatures, rising sea levels and changes to the ocean chemistry, such as ocean acidification, among others. The IAEA supports Member States in using nuclear and isotopic techniques to...
Island Nations Need All Global Energy Investments to be Clean
To live in a small island state today is to reckon regularly with the cruelest irony of climate change. Islands contribute little to global warming, but they are the first to suffer from its devastating effects and the least equipped to manage them. As carbon dioxide emissions from larger, wealthier...