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Climate change could displace half a million people from islands

2015-10-06 16:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

CBS: Residents of the Marshall Islands in the North Pacific know they have it bad. Flooding is on the rise and many face the real possibility that their island homes will disappear by the end of the century. Now, a new study projects things could even be worse than previously thought for low-lying island atolls around the world, which are home to half a million people and also host several key U.S. military installations. Studying the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, scientists from the U.S. Geological...

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