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 The nation of 70,000 people revealed the extent of the devastation during United Nations climate change talks in Germany, saying global warming was ruining crops and that sea rises were overrunning parts of the islands. The nation’s 1,000-plus islands are only about six feet above sea level – and scientists are predicting a three- to six-foot rise in sea levels by the end of the century. 
 
 "There are coffins and dead people being washed away from graves - it's that serious," said Tony de Brum, the foreign minister. "Even the dead are affected". 
 
 The nation, which lies between Hawaii and Australia, was the scene of heavy fighting during World War II, when the United States defeated the Japanese, who had a naval base there. The US military has a base on the islands and has used it for nuclear testing. 
 
 Virtually everybody in the Marshall Islands has been affected by the recently crumbling coastline, including Christopher Loeak, the nation’s president, who has watched over the years as the beaches where he fished as a boy have vanished and roads on his island home have been moved inland. 
 
 He told The Telegraph earlier this year that he was “afraid for our children and grandchildren”. 
 
 “The island is not only getting narrower - it is getting shorter,” he said. 
 
 “That is our worry – the disappearing of the land. People have had to move on many islands. We are not only talking about the land but the trees, our food security. We have lost rows and rows of coconut trees – they have been washed away.” 
 
 In Majuro, the nation’s capital, the damage from king tides and coastal erosion is unmistakeable. 
 
 The town consists of one main road that runs the length of the island, leaving the waterfront homes and shops on either side glaringly exposed to rising seas and high tides. 
 
 Across the country, coconut trees have washed away. There is less land to grow breadfruit, one of the nation’s main food sources, which cannot grow on soil where the groundwater has been infiltrated by the salty sea water. 
 
 Mr de Brum said the skeletons on Santo Island were exposed after high tides struck the coastline from February to April. Unexploded bombs and military equipment has also washed up. 
 
 "We think they're Japanese soldiers, but there are no broken bones or any indication of being war casualties," he said. "We think maybe it was suicide or something similar. We had the exhumed skeletons sampled by the US Navy in Pearl Harbour [in Hawaii] and they helped identify where they are from, to assist in the repatriation efforts…. The Japanese are sending a team in to help us in September." 
 
 The Marshall Islands and other low-lying Pacific nations have pushed for international action on climate change, saying they face an existential threat from rising sea levels. A recent report from the UN Environment Programme found that sea levels in the Pacific were rising faster than in the rest of the world. From 1993 to 2009, the rise was 0.47 inches (12 millimetres) a year, almost four times the global average. 
 
 However, despite extensive damage to parts of the Marshall Islands' coast, researchers have begun to cast doubt on claims that the Pacific islands have already begun to disappear or that the damage is due to rises in sea levels that have occurred in recent decades. Indeed, while experts say the nation does face a long-term threat, new findings show that many of the islands are largely either remaining stable or growing. 
 
 Dr Murray Ford, from the University of Auckland, has been comparing aerial photographs of the islands taken by the United States military during World War II with photographs taken in the 1970s and in recent years. He found that many islands are getting larger and that the shrinking shoreline along coastal villages has largely been caused by commercial development, building of seawalls and land reclamation. 
 
 “It is a much more complicated story than the island being washed away,” he said. 
 
 “What the people are seeing is real – there are graves and houses falling into the water – but often it is a result of engineering and sea walls being built inappropriately. Some parts of some islands are eroding as sand has moved around but some islands are growing in size.” 
 
 A newly-published study showed a southern atoll which was devastated by a 1905 typhoon has grown back to a stable state, with its vegetated area expanding by about a quarter since 1945; other smaller islands joined together to form a single landmass. 
 
 Dr Ford said climate change is causing sea levels to rise at an increasing rate and the phenomenon poses a serious threat to the islands. But, he said, the damage that has occurred so far has been due to “inappropriate” construction, while some islands have grown due to natural accretion and endlessly shifting shorelines. 
 
 “The sea level is rising and will accelerate and on the ground the response will not be pretty,” Dr Ford said. 
 
 “But the islands have shown a wide range of change and not all of that is erosion… The story in Majuro is very much a human-driven impact on the island. In the outer islands, it is driven much more by waves, currents and movements of the sands.” 
 
 The scientists are still trying to understand the changes in the islands, which can shift shape over time periods ranging from hours to centuries and can sometimes erode during winter and grow back in the summer. 
 
 An expert on coastal changes, Professor Colin Woodroffe, from the University of Wollongong, said population increases and inhabitation of low-lying lands are probably playing a part in the increasing signs of damage. 
 
 “To say the little bit of rise has led to the erosion is too simple,” he said. “The islands are already quite vulnerable to erosion - human settlement is the most important factor.” 
 
 For the residents, these unpredictable changes continue to wreak havoc and leave a question mark over their future. 
 
 At the northern end of the small island of Laura, Barmi Rockmido, 51, a mother of five, points to the dilapidated house next door, whose neighbours fled as the land around the house began to erode. 
 
 Standing on a dwindling patch of grass that was once her lush garden with an outdoor oven and a well, Mrs Rockmido says she accepts that her home may be next. 
 
 “It’s up to the gods,” she says. ||||| Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Marshall Islands are made up of 29 atolls 
 
 Rising sea levels have disturbed the skeletons of soldiers killed on the Marshall Islands during World War Two, it is claimed. 
 
 Speaking at UN climate talks in Bonn, the islands' foreign minister said that high tides had exposed one grave with 26 dead. 
 
 The minister said the bones were most likely those of Japanese troops. 
 
 Driven by global warming, waters in this part of the Pacific have risen faster than the global average. 
 
 With a high point just two metres above the waters, the Marshall Islands are one of the most vulnerable locations to changes in sea level. 
 
 These last spring tides in February to April this year have caused not just inundation and flooding of communities but have also undermined regular land, so that even the dead are affected Tony De Brum, Marshall Island's Foreign Minister 
 
 The 29 atolls that make up the Marshall Islands are home to around 70,000 people. The corals that have formed the island chain are highly vulnerable to the surrounding seas. 
 
 The waters are not just threatening to overwhelm their defences, they are eroding roads while the salt makes the land infertile. 
 
 Spring tides 
 
 Now, according to foreign minister Tony De Brum, the waters are posing a new, macabre challenge. 
 
 "These last spring tides in February to April this year have caused not just inundation and flooding of communities but have also undermined regular land, so that even the dead are affected," he said, speaking on the sidelines of the UN climate negotiations. 
 
 "There are coffins and dead people being washed away from graves, it's that serious." 
 
 He gave details of an island in his constituency where a mass grave with 26 bodies had been exposed. 
 
 "We think they are Japanese soldiers, no broken bones, no indication of war, we think maybe suicide," he said. 
 
 The Islands were occupied by the Japanese during World War Two, until they were driven out by US forces. 
 
 In the years that followed the Islands were subject to dozens of nuclear weapons tests. 
 
 Now, according to their political leaders, they face an existential threat from global warming that is expanding the seas that surround them. 
 
 Big challenges 
 
 Sea level gauges in the Marshalls show that the waters around the islands have risen by about 50% more than the global average in the period between 1968 and 2011. 
 
 Mr De Brum urged his fellow ministers attending these talks to "commit to commit" on the issue of curbing carbon emissions. 
 
 The negotiators here are trying to develop a negotiating text that will form the basis of a new global treaty to be signed next year. 
 
 However there are still formidable challenges. 
 
 Ministers are aiming to publish their commitments to cut carbon by the spring of 2015 at the latest, but they have still not agreed on what should be included in these so-called nationally determined contributions (NDCs). 
 
 They have another opportunity to get it done, at a critical meeting in Peru in December. 
 
 "The NDCs are a very key element in the negotiation," said Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, who remains confident that a deal can be done. But everything, he says, needs to speed up. 
 
 "People, I'm sure are recognising that Lima is the last opportunity, to have something strong to move towards Paris to have an agreement." 
 
 Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Islands are vulnerable to rising seas levels 
 
 Emerging economies 
 
 A continuing problem is the question of how much responsibility for cutting emissions should rest on the shoulders of the emerging economies. 
 
 China, India and others are keen to stick to the UN formula of "common but differentiated responsibilities" meaning that the richer nations do most of the heavy lifting. 
 
 But the developed countries want to change this to take account of economic development. 
 
 Speaking in Bonn, EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard said these talks cannot continue with an interpretation that reflects the last century and not this one. 
 
 "We cannot continue with the old firewall thinking to be blunt. This is not a static thing. One country's fair share must also depend on where they are in terms of economic development." 
 
 Solving this issue will be key to any form of agreement that emerges from this process. 
 
 Correction 18 July 2014: This report has been amended to remove an inaccurate figure concerning sea levels in the Marshall Islands and to further attribute information to Mr De Brum. 
 
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– The Pacific Ocean is rising so quickly that it's washed up a little history—in the form of 26 dead soldiers from World War II, the BBC reports. At climate-change talks in Germany, Tony De Brum, foreign minister of the Marshall Islands, said spring tides did the damage: "There are coffins and dead people being washed away from graves, it's that serious." He said the dead were likely Japanese soldiers who occupied before US forces drove them out: "No broken bones, no indication of war, we think maybe suicide." Rising waters are also eroding roads, ruining fertile land, and washing up unexploded bombs and other military devices on the 29 atolls, the Guardian reports—which jibes with a UN report that the Pacific is rising faster than other sea levels (about half an inch annually compared to roughly a tenth of an inch). De Brum urged other ministers at the talks to "commit to commit" to carbon-emission curbs, though they still need to decide whether developed countries will bear the brunt of the changes. As for the Marshall Islands, they're facing a sea-level rise of 3 to 6 feet this century, and are only 6 feet above water as it stands, so the risk is real, the Telegraph reports. "The island is not only getting narrower—it is getting shorter," President Christopher Loeak said earlier this year. “That is our worry—the disappearing of the land." Experts point out that commercial development and poorly built sea walls play a major role in damaging the islands, but one says that doesn't diminish the risk of rising waters—which "will accelerate, and on the ground the response will not be pretty."