Indonesia 'stands to lose 2,000 islands'

Rising sea levels because of global warming stand to inundate about 2,000 islands in Indonesia by 2030, the country’s environment minister said today.

The assessment by Rachmat Witoelar was the bleakest yet by the government of the affects of global warning on the mostly poor nation, which is made up of 18,000 islands, most of them uninhabited.