BBC: The New Zealand High Court has rejected a bid by a man from the Pacific island nation of Kiribati to stay in the country as a climate-change refugee.
Ioane Teitiota - whose work visa had expired - had said rising sea-levels meant there was no land in Kiribati he and his family could return to safely.
The low-lying island nation is vulnerable to climate change.
But the judge said environmental problems did not fit internationally recognised criteria for refugee status.
"By returning to...