[ISL] Three notes about islands and the humans who try to save them, destroy them, or just stand by

[rfmcdonald]

• Tristan Hopper describes for the National Post how, after the Second World War, Britain tried to blow up the German island of Heligoland. http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/blow-the-bloody-place-up-why-70-years-ago-britain-blew-up-an-entire-german-island.


• CNN's Jennifer Grey describes how (pro-Trump) Tangier Island, in Virginia, is sinking through sea level rise and erosion.


• National Geographic's Clare Fieseler has a gorgeous photo essay looking at how planning made once-barren Ascension Island green, and its implications for space colonization.