Halfway between Australia and Hawaii, lost in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean, lies one of the most remote and abused countries in the world: the Marshall Islands. Made up of 29 coral reef atolls and 1,152 tropical islands, most of them uninhabited, this island republic in Oceania functioned during the Cold War as a nuclear laboratory for the United States, which detonated more than sixty atomic bombs, which is why in some parts of its territory they are; that is why many Marshallese are born with deformities and suffer from cancer. But currently, their main concern is climate change which will make life impossible on their archipelagos in a few years: rising sea levels threaten to flood the entire country within half a century. Many citizens have already left their land to survive, They are climate refugees"Paradise is an island, hell too," wrote Judith Schalansky in her Atlas of Remote Islands.