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Climate-change refugee from low-lying Pacific island will test argument in New Zealand court

2013-10-01 03:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: A man from one of the lowest-lying nations on Earth is trying to convince New Zealand judges that he's a refugee -- suffering not from persecution, but from climate change. The 37-year-old and his wife left his remote atoll in the Pacific nation of Kiribati six years ago for higher ground and better prospects in New Zealand, where their three children were born. Immigration authorities have twice rejected his argument that rising sea levels make it too dangerous for him and his family to return...

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