Vice: New Zealand's Supreme Court has delivered the final rejection of a Pacific Islander's landmark bid to become a climate refugee.
Ioane Teitiota, a 38-year-old man who has been living in New Zealand since 2007, had argued that he and his wife and three children would face "passive persecution" if they were forced to return to the low-lying archipelago nation of Kiribati because its government is unable to protect them from rising sea levels caused by climate change.
Prior to arriving in New Zealand,...