Hacker News with Generative AI: Pacific Islands

What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today (2017) (medium.com)
Nearly 60 years after the last of 23 nuclear explosions in its land, air and water, Bikini Atoll again looks like the idyllic Pacific paradise it was in 1946 — a bracelet of sandy, palm-covered islets encircling an azure lagoon. But it doesn’t take long to pick up on Bikini’s enduring eeriness, says Stanford biology professor Stephen Palumbi, who visited the remote atoll for a 10-day research trip featured in Big Pacific, a documentary that aired this summer on PBS.
Fiji is already relocating villages because of climate change (zmescience.com)
Climate migration is no longer a distant fear — it’s a reality. In Fiji, it’s a particularly pressing reality. Rising seas and extreme weather have forced entire communities to move. For this Pacific island nation, the question isn’t whether to relocate people but how to do so in a way that protects lives and livelihoods. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is watching closely as one billion people may find themselves in a similar situation in a matter of decades.
Famed Pacific Rapa Nui island's population 'crash' debunked by ancient DNA (nature.com)
More than 800 years ago, Polynesians sailed thousands of kilometres across the Pacific Ocean to one of the most remote islands on Earth, Rapa Nui.
Ancient Rapanui genomes reveal pre-European contact with the Americas (nature.com)
Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) is one of the most isolated inhabited places in the world.