The island of Naghotano in the Solomon Islands, about 80km away from Honiara the capital, is around a kilometre square and home to about 600 people. As the population grows, rising sea levels are chewing away at Naghotano and the other islands of the Pacific archipelago year after year causing increasingly unstable shorelines. ‘The island used to have a large shoreline with many trees,’ one of the locals explained. With the trees that once stood on solid ground being washed away by the sea, the village becomes more vulnerable to storms and high tides.

Photograph: Taco van der Eb