A recently published study has found that five reef islands in the Solomon Islands have disappeared due to rising sea levels,

Rising sea levels have caused the disappearance of five land masses within the Solomon Islands. 
The finding is documented in a recently published study by an Australia-based team which assessed 33 of the area’s islands between 1947 and 2014. 
Scientific American reports that while these chunks of land were relatively small--less than a square mile e