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When John Davorington began to dive into coral reefs outside his home in Havana Port in Vanuao 10 years ago, corals like the sunken forest – length positions from the fastest branch in yellow centuries, coral layer such as curtains, and clouds of mockery that pass through the metaphors.

He said: “We used to know every inch of these coral reefs.” “It was like a friend.”

Now, it cannot be recognized.

After the hurricane Pam was beaten by coral reefs in 2015, the sediments of the inner rivers strangled the coral family. The sea star washed away from the eruption and devoured the retreating benign tumors.

The successive hurricanes in 2023 were crushed. Then, in December 2024, a 7.3 earthquake shook 7.3 sea bottom.

What remains is a coral cemetery – a bleaching ruins scattered across the sea floor, habitats collapsed, and life has disappeared.

“We got out of the water crying,” said Wurmangton, who recorded thousands of diving on this coral reef. “We just see a sorrow.”

This heart has become more common in this island’s nation in the Pacific Ocean, where it reintegrates hurricanes, the height of the seas, and salty water infiltrated to reshape the coasts and threaten daily life.

Since 1993, sea levels have risen around the beaches of Vanu’u by about 6 mm (0.24 inches) annually – much faster than the global average – and in some areas, the tectonic activity doubled this rate.

On Wednesday, Vanu’u will have his day at the highest court in the world. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will issue an advisory opinion on the legal obligations that countries must address climate change, and what are the consequences they may face if they do not.

The issue, led by Vanuao and supported by more than 130 countries, is a possible turning point in the International Climate Law.

Opinion will not be legally binding, but it may help form future efforts to hold the main gates accountable, and to secure the financing and movement that the small island countries need to adapt or survive.

This comes after decades of frustration with the Pacific countries that have seen their homelands disappear.

In Tuvalu, where the average height is (6.6 feet), more than a third of the population applies for a climate immigration visa to Australia.

By 2100, many countries are expected to be underwater at the high tide.

In Nauru, the government began selling passports to the wealthy foreigners-which are offered, exempt from the visa to dozens of countries-in an attempt to generate revenues for potential transportation efforts.

Vanu’a has already requested opinions from other international courts, and he is pressuring to recognize the environment – destroying the environment – as a crime under the International Criminal Court.

Christina Show, CEO of the Environmental Sciences Association in Vanuatu, said all of these effects can only be attributed to climate change.

Coastal development, tufts decline, volcanic explosions, forest removal, and pollution also contribute to the decline in the ecological system.

She said: “The Vanuatu environment is very fragile by its nature in that it is small with narrow coral reefs, and it has small amounts of surface soil, and is affected regularly due to natural disasters.” “But we have to think about other human effects on our environment as well.”

The damage is not limited to homes, gardens and coral reefs – they reach places that are believed to be unknown.

On the island of Pele, the village chief Amos Calson sits in the grave of his brother while the waves were launched against semi -broken graves driven in the sand.

In Tide High Tide, the graves of his brother and father sit a few lengths from the sea. Some homes and gardens have already been transported inward, and salty water contaminated the basic drinking water source of society.

Now, society is considering transporting the entire village – but this means leaving the land of their ancestors has been cleared by hand.

Many people in Vanuato are still committed to building something stronger and hoped that the rest of the world will support them.

Returning to the port of Havana, John Davington still dives coral reefs that he considers part of his family. While many of them have ended, he and his wife Sandy began to cultivate coral fragments in the hope of restoring what remains.