Serua Island is one of many coastal villages making difficult decisions about their future, seeking government assistance for expensive projects to adapt or move, say Fiji government officials.

Whether to stay or go is a question residents are grappling with in Fiji's Serua Island. Cultural connection to land has made the decision that much harder. Tuiverata is a 14th generation resident ...

Village elders on Fiji's Serua Island always believed they would die here on prized land where their chiefs are buried. But as the community runs out of ways to adapt to the rising Pacific Ocean ...

Boats moor next to living rooms on Fiji’s Serua Island, where high tide breaches the seawall and floods the village. Wooden planks link homes with gardens inundated by seawater.

Reuters / LOREN ELLIOTT Boats moor next to living rooms on Fiji's Serua Island, where water breaches the seawall at high tide, flooding into the village. Planks of wood stretch between some homes ...

Serua island is one of many coastal villages making difficult decisions about their future, seeking government assistance for expensive projects to adapt or move, say Fiji government officials.

One of these is the village on Serua Island, which was the focus of our study. Coastal erosion and flooding have severely damaged the village over the past two decades. Homes have been submerged ...

SERUA — Boats moor next to living rooms on Fiji’s Serua Island, where water breaches the seawall at high tide, flooding into the village. Planks of wood stretch between some homes, forming a makeshift ...

The ocean that separates Serua Island from Fiji’s main island, Viti Levu, is also part of the identity of men and women of Serua. One man said: “When you have walked to the island, that means ...