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'Climate refugee' fighting to stay in New Zealand
2013-10-01 16:00:00| 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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