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Sea level rise is already driving people from the Marshall Islands
2016-09-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: There may be music in the roar of the sea, as Byron eulogized, but the waves can also bring creeping unease. On low-lying fragments of land like the Marshall Islands, the tides are threatening to take away what they previously helped support: life. Hilda Heine surveys the latest temporary sea wall that cleaves her property from the waves. It has been knocked down twice since February by floods and she frets about her plants that will probably face a salty demise. Her vista would, sadly, be...
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