[ISL] Five islands notes: Caribbean, Anticosti, Greece, Hawai'i, Micronesia

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• The Inter Press Service notes that the vulnerable islands of the Caribbean can survive only a modest increase in temperatures.


• La Presse reports that the new premier of Québec, François Legault, says he has no plans to open up Anticosti island, in the Guilf of St. Lawrence, to exploration for oil.


• VICE interviews some workers on a Greek party island to see what their lives are like. (Rarely does it feel like a vacation.)


• The recent Hurricane Walaka has done terrible damage to some of the most remote islands of Hawai'i, destroying low-lying East Island entirely. Global News reports.


• CNN notes that although the more remote islands of the Federated States of Micronesia might seem idyllic to tourists, local populations are emigrating from these isolated locations in large numbers.